There are fields (recommender systems in particular in my opinion) where you will not get published if you report a strong baseline and your approach does not o

There are fields (recommender systems in particular in my opinion) where you will not get published if you report a strong baseline and your approach does not outperform it, but you may get published if you use weak baselines and your approach outperforms it. This doesn't make sense to me as surely it's possible for promising new approaches to not yet outperform current state of the art methods. These peer review aberrations incentivise these bad research practices I think.