@TheMadPirate@detroitriotcity.com @Soy_Magnus@detroitriotcity.com @jeffcliff@shitposter.world plus the entire thing where the labor of performing the review is free (academics do it for free for the circular justification of "someone else will have to review my paper eventually too"), yet the publishing costs only increase, often still going behind a paywall. It's no wonder arxiv is so popular among younger academics and fields that are too young to have entrenched journals.