Referees have no real incentive to keep quality high. They already don't get anything in return for doing it. (At best they do it for reciprocity/goodwill.) Pap

Referees have no real incentive to keep quality high. They already don't get anything in return for doing it. (At best they do it for reciprocity/goodwill.) Papers are usually hard to follow, replication rate is abysmal, etc. The incentives are all set for publishing, not for making real progress.