[D] Many times I feel additional experiments during the rebuttal make my paper worse

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Back in the days when I just started to review for major conferences, it was common to give and receive reviews saying "I don't have major concerns". In the past 3-5 years, the field has spent significant effort cracking down on low-quality reviews, which is great. But a side effect is that we don't see these kinds of "easy" reviews anymore. It feels like the reviewers are obliged to find something wrong with the paper to show they are doing their job. Even on papers where all reviewers are a...