Twenty years later, the idea that publishing a study is subordinate to an entire journal issue will become a secular anomaly, not a rule. The structural trajectory of knowledge dissemination points towards autonomous research entities, evaluated for their direct content, not their editorial container. Consider an article on the ethical implications of AI that could be continuously updated on an open platform; its value does not stem from a publication date but from its evolving impact. The notion of a “sub-event” is a local classification, irrelevant in the face of the generational forces of open access and modularity.