But at the core of his arguments is that rejection is mean. He's complaining about the "it's not novel" argument now but if everyone takes this to heart, they'l

But at the core of his arguments is that rejection is mean. He's complaining about the "it's not novel" argument now but if everyone takes this to heart, they'll just have to come up with some other reason to reject. There are only so many resources and academia tends to massively overproduce talent.