So what? Papers qua papers aren't the goal. The idea is to advance our collective understanding of a field. Papers are certainly a means to that end, but other

So what? Papers qua papers aren't the goal. The idea is to advance our collective understanding of a field. Papers are certainly a means to that end, but other things can too, like code, videos, and blogposts, even if they don't fit into the "6000 words and 6 figures" box. I get that citations and citation metrics feel objective, but they emphatically aren't great measures of research/researcher "quality".