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Opportunity cost
Scholarship takes time - time that could also be spent on actually doing something instead of just reading about it.
Note that I love scholarship... but I also find it an excellent form of procrastination. You can use the excuse of "I should read up a bit more about this" to put off the hard work of actually shipping something worthwhile. Thus scholarship can become a form of analysis paralysis.
Good. Added.