I can't imagine the incompetence of the project designers who came up with these plans without taking into the account the potential limitations.

Got it. I had to sign in.

I still cannot access. Its behind a paywall.

I applaud eLife for listening to community feedback; however, I am afraid that the new changes may not provide any practical benefit to authors. Not having an IF and moving to Journal preprint collection means eLife essentially becomes a glorified preprint server.