Someone is getting paid to loop in the peer-reviewers in the first place. Probably not a lot for any given article, but it's something. I guess peer-reviewers

Someone is getting paid to loop in the peer-reviewers in the first place. Probably not a lot for any given article, but it's something. I guess peer-reviewers may save money by doing some editing that the paid editor would have to do instead. I don't know how this balances out.