thank you! I also found the same thing during my PhD and it took a basic-pay-topublish paper and 2 years to get my supervisor to agree that this is not really g

thank you! I also found the same thing during my PhD and it took a basic-pay-topublish paper and 2 years to get my supervisor to agree that this is not really going anywhere with publications and switch to a field, where I am more comfortable with producing publications. Essentially my field has 1 big dataset, and then domain experts "improve" models by creating their own data (200 samples) and then claim a "novel" method (which is not transferable at all). The pay2publish-paper was sent back by 2 journals with reviews indicating exactly "our method is better, just use the right (our) thing" (which I _all_ refuted for the professor by doing it, but the editor wouldn't hear anymore...). And then there's papers predicting features through a complex preprocessing pipeline in these journals. Academia and big companies are just idiotic.