> Lots of people are defiant through their entire lives, and those people do disproportionately like to work in science.
That is strange since to work in science today you have to be extremely compliant for close to a decade. Most people who aren't gets kicked out or removed in selection processes, what you have left is one of the most compliant parts of society.
Intra-generational power structures are a much larger impediment. Funerals take way too long to happen.