One example of these might be systems like S3 and distributed computing in AWS. Like, huge ideas that take massive initiatives to implement, but make science meaningfully easier. I can't think of many other modern technologies we use that the team doesn't mostly resent (like Slack or Google Drive). They're largely interested in just doing the science, the rest eats into funding (which is increasingly sparse these days).
The solutions these scientists need are bespoke and share little in common. They also have fixed grant funding.
In 2009 I made $15/hr working with some PhDs and grad students in a couple different labs to automate their workflows - I was the highest paid person in the room most of the time.