This. Absolutely this! The bar for what counts as a "publishable paper" has risen considerably, and will keep rising. I was joking to a coauthor this week that, David Card's displeasure notwithstanding, the average WP was going to get longer. We will become a book field--I'm not joking.
Clément Canonne🧵To juniors: - Move away from LPUs, at all costs. (Nobody likes to think of their own paper as LPU: what I mean here is "a paper just good enough to be published in a fairly good conf even a year ago") These publications are most likely going to die, or not being valued any more, as flood-prone 2/