The time argument is the thing that really turned me off. In my one published paper we wrote the draft a full two and a half years before it saw the light of d

The time argument is the thing that really turned me off. In my one published paper we wrote the draft a full two and a half years before it saw the light of day. One referee didn't like it, so it went through a review process, then got bumped down to a lower journal (PRL to PR-A for the physics folks) started the acceptance process again... Even in CS where things are mostly conference oriented, you're still probably looking at close to a year between finishing the research and seeing it published.