I agree, not necessarily because publishing in a journal one is involved in is uncommon, but rather because putting one's work there although this work is dispu

I agree, not necessarily because publishing in a journal one is involved in is uncommon, but rather because putting one's work there although this work is disputed in the community clearly signals that one has not managed to build consensus and does not want/is not able to fight the good fight. If it was an incremental addition to well-established work that hardly anyone in the community can dispute, it would be a different story.