It’s not… that’s not really how academia works despite what it looks like from the outside
It’s a part of the equation but only a small part. Most tenure-track academics get into a comfy publishing situation and game levels up. This stuff is phd/postdoc/adjunct level worries.
maybe it’s my adjunct level worries shining through, but it’s also the experience of many of the ex-academics i’ve worked with, so i have a hard time writing it off completely
The purpose of the gauntlet is partly to make the excess academics into ex-academics 😆
If you can’t survive elsevier how will you survive the far more brutal pressures of fights with your fellow academics over parking spots?
I got weeded out after postdoc too