But proportionally, wouldn't a solution without an epsilon loss be much better than a solution with epsilon? I am not sure what's the exact conjecture that the

But proportionally, wouldn't a solution without an epsilon loss be much better than a solution with epsilon? I am not sure what's the exact conjecture that the author solved, but if the epsilon difference is between an approximate solution versus an exact solution, and the journal rejected the exact solution because it was "only an epsilon improvement", I might question how reputable that journal really was.