Your analogy is great. What happens when it's the cats who get to decide what's published? Not an ideal scenario, but that's exactly the situation here. Mathe

Your analogy is great. What happens when it's the cats who get to decide what's published? Not an ideal scenario, but that's exactly the situation here. Mathematicians decide what gets reviewed and published in a a top journal. In the long run, this can and should make journals obsolete.