In general I agree that low acceptance rate with negative selection based on arguments like "it's not novel", "it's obvious" is toxic. I get it that capacity f

In general I agree that low acceptance rate with negative selection based on arguments like "it's not novel", "it's obvious" is toxic. I get it that capacity for conference might be limited, so gatekeeping might be necessity, but personally I like to learn useful knowledge, so something novel, but theoretical might be more boring for me than something well known, but improved in some interesting ways. Also composing solutions is interesting, you should not have to reinvent the wheel, just to get approved, if you want to focus on broader perspective. The whole is greater than sum of the parts.