I am a researcher. Researchers, now more than ever with AI, have plenty of time to write something. The lift of writing is never the hard part, anyways.
When I was in grad school at a top tier university, academics never spent time writing anything but grants (or, occasionally, lecture notes). If they really felt they needed to (e.g. pressure to publish in IEEE Spectrum), they got an underling to do it for them and simply edited it.
