> Why is this the top comment? Many of the comments, as well as this one, have no relation to content and only mention a triviality

This is hardly a triviality. If you are interested in a topic and you find a paper interesting, more often than not you are interested in reaching out to the author.

If a paper features a list of authors that outnumber the paper's pages 10-to-1, it's a major red flag, and it's quite plausible and expectable that 99%of the names in that list had zero input and might even have zero contribution to give to the topic. I'd even argue it's a kin to academic fraud.

By the way, the same goes for those researchers who work on paper mills, and manage to rake in production metrics that go well beyond an article per day.