I was thinking for the reviewer. Also note that I was only answering as to why it wasn’t done in the past.

For the time comparison, I’m not sure, it doesn’t seem quite apples-to-apples:

1) It is scheduled time vs unscheduled.

2) There must be some base rate consideration… the papers being discussed here were planned to be desk-rejected.

Maybe it could be a good process for saving papers that were going to be desk-rejected, but I dunno, that seems like it’d just lower the quality standards.