Computer scientists themselves will be the first to tell you this. There are comparable horror stories about other operating systems and most application software. In short, those who think computing technology is supposed to be the servant rather than the master are in for a rude awakening. The billable hours model for humanities computing. Good training for our students who do have to earn a living as consultants.
Time is precious.
So is a functional and ecologically-friendly sewer system. Scholarship is not a line of work. Teaching, research, publishing are lines of work. A person engaged in scholarship need not teach, need not publish and need not conduct research except in the most minimal sense of consuming products of scholarship. I stress the point.