Yeah we’ve seen even recently that the gatekeeping for even getting an attempt at peer review hampers many papers. I understand the rationale though.

I had submitted a paper with some friends to an epub, and asked some people in the academic space what they thought of it.

I was an undergraduate, other members were in their grad courses.

We had brown men on twitter call us names and berate us because we asked what they thought. Yeah the formatting wasn’t perfect, but the math behind it was sound