Have you ever published in a peer-review journal? If not the last portion of your post I will ignore, if so perhaps your could expound on it a bit more.
The actual experience of publishing a paper hardly adds anything that can’t be understood without doing so. Peer-review is not about “critics” responding to endorsement by well-known figures, it’s quality control (with whatever failing it may carry), and not a point where written-up public criticisms originate. Science builds on what’s published, not on what gets rejected by peer review, and what’s published can be read by all.
The actual experience of publishing a paper hardly adds anything that can’t be understood without doing so. Peer-review is not about “critics” responding to endorsement by well-known figures, it’s quality control (with whatever failing it may carry), and not a point where written-up public criticisms originate. Science builds on what’s published, not on what gets rejected by peer review, and what’s published can be read by all.
FWIW, in my experience the useful criticisms happen at conferences or in private conversation, not during the peer review process.
It is rarely the case that experience adds hardly anything. What are your priors and posteriors here? How did you update?