Ditto with this, if arxiv is just a hosting site then what’s different then a personal GitHub site hosting your paper? Ai and Google would pick it up eventually.
That means that 10 years from now I don’t want think about making sure the hosting server is up.
I also want it to have a standard format for bibliography, DOI, and authors.
I agree it isn’t much, but it’s more than I get from a regular web hosting service and it is a standard format for papers so I don’t think it makes sense for every author to roll their own.
Personally, i see no problem with delays, research takes longer than a few days. Reviews take a few weeks or months even.