[einpoklum]

They lost me at suggesting that a future ArXiv should be

> Web-native and web-first

Absolutely not. It should be "physical paper first". Any long-term archiving cannot rely on electrical devices for viewing archived material. Electrical grids fail. Technology changes. Even if ArXiv is not a print archive, the material in it must be, first and foremost, printable in a consistent manner, and with the authors targeting the physical printed form. Of course, one would need to actually print ArXiv items to physically archive them, but still.

Now, of course archiving data is useful and important; and large amounts of data are less appropriate for print archiving. But that should always be secondary to the archiving on knowledge.