I agree with this 100% and generally believe that most people are wildly underpaid these days, but I suspect the bigger issue in this specific case is more along the lines of trying to be both a 'vertical farming' company and a robotics company at the same time without the scale needed to make vertical integration worthwhile or the market needed to pay for the robotics part of the company

like if i spent $20 million on developing hair cutting robots and then opened a couple robot barber shops that made $500,000/year, you could accurately describe me as a revenue generating hair cutting company. that doesn't necessarily mean it's good business sense to keep pouring money into r&d. if the market for the robots isn't there or if the robots aren't even market-ready, it might just be a bad idea, even if the haircuts themselves are really good (or if the robots start making really good salads)