Sure, but imagine you go to a university and see a pretty standard mentor-apprentice relationship designed to perpetuate a culture. We don't need to be psychologists to apply common sense and say it is done that way for a good reason and alternative approaches should be trialled in a different system.

It would be good to have a better system, but we can develop it without risking the valuable academic culture. You can see how valuable it is because people keep signing up to it despite the archaic nature of its traditions.