I work in a big corp's software science department and this is really how it feels like. Lots of awesome ideas, but everything is just 40%-60% done. And you can't really blame budget or upper management for this, since in our industry it's totally fine to come 10 years late to the party. In this market segment you may still be the first.
You should have lunch with the non-science department guys and see where they're at. I would bet it's pretty similar, not everything but lots of things only 40-60% done, PMs and some devs have lots of awesome ideas that can't all squeeze into the next planning horizon. The difference is things at least get shipped in that state and worked on incrementally with lots of flags to hide the roughest edges, ideally at some point things are worked on enough and declared 90+% "done" and only worked on in maintenance mode but there's always new things shipping half-baked.
