[psychphysic]

I think there is a balance to be struck and certainly don't want to say oh well there should be another journal for that.

But before the internet elaborate pedagogical papers simply took up to much paper real estate and so brief punchy result dense work was produced.

Im won over by the article in preprint then elaboration blog posts theme we see more in maths.

[ISL]

Physics has the same strategy: Important and timely results appear in the four-page (now four-page-ish) PRL and the long-term paper wrapping it up appears in PRD (or PRA, PRB, PRC, or PRE).

Only drawback is that people primarily read PRL, so people try to squash long-form results into PRL alone.