Academia requires GRADUATE degrees - so your point seems less than convincing.
Graduate schools compete hard against one another to enroll West Point alums who apply.
West Point is strictly undergrad, which is one reason why it remains focused on that task, rather than on the whimsies, pet projects, and egos of academics who rarely even interact with undergraduates.
To the extent that I perceive a problem, it’s with academia, not West Point, an island of sanity in an ocean of lunacy.