@arjunrajlab In my experience, the low cost offshore copy editors they farm work out to are hardly among the "most capable people in scientific publishing." Any value gained in the editing process is definitely not worth the money charged.
@rburdine1 One of the biggest surprises in moving to industry has been how much less sexism, harassment, and general bad behavior is tolerated compared with academia. In a star system, the stars get to behave however they want while people look the other way.