Same thing in economics: many of the truly influential papers from the 1930s to the 1950s would probably never get published today because the reaction would immediately be: “Did you run 126 robustness checks?” or “Is the identification strategy airtight?” Take Keynes’ General Theory. I doubt a major university press would accept it today. What we often end up with instead are countless papers that are extremely methodologically careful but focused on relatively minor questions. Of course, there are still genuinely outstanding papers being produced. But probably far fewer than there should be.