If you're a normal software engineer, I agree, you shouldn't implement it yourself. But if you're a researcher/had a CS research background, I don't see why no

If you're a normal software engineer, I agree, you shouldn't implement it yourself. But if you're a researcher/had a CS research background, I don't see why not. By definition research results in novel approaches (ideally better) than the current ones. You have to be willing to challenge the consensus. PhD students who can prove that their algs work should work on it, like the results of this paper: https://raft.github.io https://raft.github.io