I know this isn't a popular view, but why would you want to distract yourself when you're doing real impactful work? If you were working at a startup would people accuse you of neglecting students, as if doing the best work in the field, like a startup, doesn't use up most of your time?
I talked to a former academic who did amazing research, got multiple best paper awards, and then because of some personality conflicts in her department she got forced out over her teaching philosophy (in part because she was making people look bad by comparison). It seems like the teaching thing is mainly orthogonal to doing good work, other than for recruiting, and it's something that people can use against you when your research speaks for itself so strongly they don't have anything on you.
I talked to a former academic who did amazing research, got multiple best paper awards, and then because of some personality conflicts in her department she got forced out over her teaching philosophy (in part because she was making people look bad by comparison). It seems like the teaching thing is mainly orthogonal to doing good work, other than for recruiting, and it's something that people can use against you when your research speaks for itself so strongly they don't have anything on you.