Amen. Coming from physics to biology, I've seen some abuse. But as noted, the inverse is true as well.

The last manuscript I read was for a new journal, and was laughably poor. It was a review of the literature that had no focus, offered no perspective, no synthesis, was ridiculously shallow, and had no unifying thread. It wouldn't have made the grade as a freshman paper. As a high school paper, maybe it would deserve a C. My advice was to reject. The other reviewer praised the work. All is not well in scientific publishing.