From a theory that relies on the impossibility of gas giants staying gas giants near a star, I'd expect some arguments as to why all the observed gas giants tha

From a theory that relies on the impossibility of gas giants staying gas giants near a star, I'd expect some arguments as to why all the observed gas giants that are extremely close to their stars do not invalidate it. I read the preprint, but it's a little iffy on the idea of how the removal of the outer layers is supposed to work. But I think the idea is that a small gas giant would lose its outer layers if brought in from the outer solar system, while a Jupiter-sized one wouldn't. Still, the preprint makes no reference to hot Jupiters whatsoever, which seems to be a major oversight. It's no good crowing about how your model explains one planetary system without even mentioning what it says about others. I don't much like this model, myself.