[godelski]

  > Also, if you are as experienced as you claim to be, you should know that conferences are notorious for having FAR weaker peer review than actual journals.

Yes, but conferences are the primary publishing venue used in computer science and ML. Publishing in NeurIPS, CVPR, or ICML is more prestigious than publishing in JMLR or TMLR

While worse at conferences, I are, the fundamental problems are similar. They exacerbate the problems, but it's still the same problems

And please don't be offended. I'm writing to a general audience. I don't know if you have academic experience or not until you tell me. It seems you agree it would not be appropriate for me to assume otherwise