I agree with you except for the sentiment expressed by "Their primary research papers appear to be typeset in Word for christ sake." I don't remember the name,

I agree with you except for the sentiment expressed by "Their primary research papers appear to be typeset in Word for christ sake." I don't remember the name, but there was a computer architecture journal which had papers printed with dot-matrix printers (this was in the 80s). I would not discount the value of work due to this.