> “Some popular models like Prophet [Taylor and Letham, 2018] and ARIMA were excluded from the analysis due to their prohibitive computational requirements and

> “Some popular models like Prophet [Taylor and Letham, 2018] and ARIMA were excluded from the analysis due to their prohibitive computational requirements and extensive training times.” Yes, I've done some work in time series forecasting. The above sentence is the one that tipped me off to this paper being BS, so I stopped reading after that. :) I can't take any paper about timeseries forecasting seriously by an author who isn't familiar with the field.