> You are seriously giving authors too much credit.
Sure, how can we credit someone who did the research and prepared the paper in its publish-ready form :)
> The vast majority of the journal papers require enormous amount of production editing
Absolutely! Such as introducing new errors by people with no subject understanding. :)
> that's exactly why the EICs and societies sold those journals to publishers.
They are sold to them for the very simple reason: $$$ they get from it :)
> Graphs do not fit the page ...
If any of these are not acceptable, the journal is perfectly correct to request changes from the author. Which I as author would prefer over introducing damages by people with no idea what my papers are about.
Sure, how can we credit someone who did the research and prepared the paper in its publish-ready form :)
> The vast majority of the journal papers require enormous amount of production editing
Absolutely! Such as introducing new errors by people with no subject understanding. :)
> that's exactly why the EICs and societies sold those journals to publishers.
They are sold to them for the very simple reason: $$$ they get from it :)
> Graphs do not fit the page ...
If any of these are not acceptable, the journal is perfectly correct to request changes from the author. Which I as author would prefer over introducing damages by people with no idea what my papers are about.