Conference appendices outgrow page limits

This feels less like a formatting issue and more like an incentive problem: conference review norms now reward appendix-heavy papers even when the main text cannot stand alone.

• –Page caps only mean something if the main paper contains the essential argument, evidence, and limitations.
• –Once key experiments move to the appendix, “supplementary” material becomes part of the real submission.
• –The trend helps reproducibility and completeness, but it also raises the bar for smaller labs that cannot bankroll sprawling experiment suites.
• –A cleaner norm would be shorter conference papers with truly optional appendices, plus explicit journal-style outlets for extended versions.