The editor is not the one making the call really. Its the reviewers. If they give it few marks or no marks then that’s it, its published. If they dog that paper

The editor is not the one making the call really. Its the reviewers. If they give it few marks or no marks then that’s it, its published. If they dog that paper down then the editor has to sit up in their chair and actually decide whether or not the authors made sufficient change to address the reviewers complaints. But even then its still the reviewers who are demanding the standard, not the editors.