Reminds me of the problem Albert Einstein had with the referees at The Physical Review. Einstein said essentially the same thing: the job of a journal is to publish my research, without trying to evaluate its fitness for publication.

In 1930s Einstein, Rosen, and Infeld sent a paper about gravitational waves, but a referee rejected it with comments. Einstein replied:

Dear Sir,
We (Mr. Rosen and I) had sent you our manuscript for publication and had not authorized you to show it to specialists before it is printed. ...

https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.2117822

The thing is, their paper contained an important error — their initial conclusion was that gravitational waves could not exist.