[cmarschner]

ArXiv has this wonderful property: It works. It‘s simple. Everybody understands it. It is steady. People build tools around it (e.g. arxiv-sanity.com, Google scholar…) which make it even more useful. It has spin-offs like biorxiv that are catered to those communities. It is like a piece of infrastructure. Who cares aboud doi’s when the arxiv URL is already the standard? Yes it has its disadvantages, but none of them seems to justify to me to turn it upside down. Rather one could just add things, slowly, just like they‘re doing it.