One way to look at journals are that they are "ready made" reputation for those without their own. A new author can leverage the reputation of the journal to e

One way to look at journals are that they are "ready made" reputation for those without their own. A new author can leverage the reputation of the journal to establish their own reputation. On that basis, maybe the mark of a truly prestigious researcher is one who can post directly to arXiv? Rather than the highest accolade being for a paper in Nature, the highest accolade should be for a widely reviewed paper on arXiv?