While you might argue that team sports accent teamwork. Taken to its extreme, competition excuses violence, destruction and atrocity To view the world as friend or foe leads to paralyzing despair if the foe is seen as incomprehensible, implacable, and too diffuse to hit solidly. But a Ph.D. all too often indicates a history of ritualized obedience rather than of exploration. As in agriculture, this unnatural concentration reduces diversity and disrupts evolution. It is also vulnerable to disruption arriving from an unexpected quarter, a common failing of all technology.
Specialization also invites oversimplification.
You can he sure that a simple solution to any problem has left out something important. Note also that those proposers rarely include themselves as committed actors exposed to all aspects of the project. Because the narrow-visioned thinking of specialists is well rewarded, particularly in academia, pernicious effects are invisible to those involved. The need for interdisciplinary effort is usually considered as a theoretical matter for future discussion, impractical, or as a turf-invasion to be repelled by bureaucratic maneuver. This situation is a veritable petri dish for culturing dishonesty and ineptitude.