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a) Public policy as a field in India is still in its infancy and will take 20 more years to develop. Even then there is no guarantee things will improve, because of the lack of quality leaders and bureaucrats in India.
b) The current lot were early movers in the field, as it’s a space that the early generations of NLU grads/other top grads didn’t get into. So the PP field in India hasn’t seen an infusion of creative ideas by brilliant people. Some good people are joining now, but they are too young to make a difference and most leave after a couple of years to change careers or study/migrate abroad.
c) The work in India as such is terrible: copy-paste talking points prepared by bosses abroad and suck up to IAS officers from small towns who have poor domain knowledge and social awareness, and are also very corrupt, feudalistic and arrogant.