There is a long history behind the whole Reviewer 2 meme, and the main issue is that in real life facing a nasty reviewer isn’t funny (speaking from my personal experience). Idk what should happen to the reviewing industrial complex in order to make it look and feel decent, as so many people in Academia *really* love to shit on their younger colleagues simply because “fuck you that’s why.”

That is why I try hard NOT to be this person, while reviewing even objectively poor papers: it doesn’t cost you anything to be polite and keep your frustrations to yourself.