There's yer problem right there. Good pedagogy is hard and highly undervalued. IMHO Grant Sanderson (a.k.a. 3blue1brown) is making some of the most significant contributions to math in all of human history by making very complex topics accessible to ordinary mortals. In so doing he addresses one of the most significant problems facing humankind: the growing gap between the technologically savvy and everyone else. That gap is the underlying cause of some very serious problems.
Hard to imagine now, but back when he started out, there were really no (to very few!) accessible math tutoring vids on the video platforms. Most of the times you had some universities, like MIT, putting out long-form vids from lectures - but actually having easily digestible 5 min vids like those Khan put out, just wasn't a thing.
I am not a mathematician, but out of personal interest, I have worked with professional mathematicians in the past to help refine notes that explain certain intermediate steps in textbooks (for example, Galois Theory, by Stewart, in a specific case). I was surprised to find that it was not just me who found the intermediate steps of certain proofs obscure. Even professional mathematicians who had studied the subject for much of their lives found them obscure. It took us two days of working together to untangle a complicated argument and present it in a way that satisfied three properties: (1) correctness, (2) completeness, and (3) accessibility to a reasonably motivated student.
And I don't mean that the books merely omit basic results from elementary topics like group theory or field theory, which students typically learn in their undergraduate courses. Even if we take all the elementary results from undergraduate courses for granted, the proofs presented in graduate-level textbooks are often nowhere near a complete explanation of why the arguments work. They are high-level outlines at best. I find this hugely problematic, especially because students often learn a topic under difficult deadlines. If the exposition does not include sufficient detail, some students might never learn exactly why the proof works, because not everyone has the time to work out a 10-page proof for every 10 lines in the book.
Many good universities provide accompanying notes that expand the difficult arguments by giving rigorous proofs and adding commentary to aid intuition. I think that is a great practice. I have studied several graduate-level textbooks in the last few years and while these textbooks are a boon to the world, because textbooks that expose the subject are better than no textbooks at all, I am also disappointed by how inaccessible such material often is. If I had unlimited time, I would write accompaniments to those textbooks that provide a detailed exposition of all the arguments. But of course, I don't have unlimited time. Even so, I am thinking of at least making a start by writing accompaniment notes for some topics whose exposition quality I feel strongly about, such as s-arc transitivity of graphs, field extensions and so on.
That sounds dramatic, but it’s really obvious if you think about it. Right now, a person has to study for about 20 years (on average) to make novel contributions in mathematics. They have to learn what’s come before, the techniques, the results, etc. If mathematics continues, eventually it could take 25 years, or 30 years, or even a whole lifetime. At some point, most people will not be able to understand the work that’s been done in any subfield (or the work required to understand a subfield) in a human’s life. I claim this is the logical end of mathematics, at least as a human endeavor.
Now, there will be some results which refine other work and simplify results, but being able to teach a rapidly growing body of literature efficiently will be important to stave off the end of mathematics.
To your point, I think you're right. I'm not in mathematica, but the value of good pedagogy on shrinking the time it takes to get people to the forefront of any field feels like it's heavily overlooked.
https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/11/09/ars-longa-vita-brevis/