After a paper published in 2011: “[Original draft was available in 2003. Hurrah for academic publishing. One journal reviewed the manuscript for nearly two years before determining that it was too long. No wonder philosophy has not advanced farther in the past 2,500 years.] ”
Maybe the difficulties that you face are part of the answer to the question of why theoretical progress doesn’t happen faster.
After a paper published in 2011: “[Original draft was available in 2003. Hurrah for academic publishing. One journal reviewed the manuscript for nearly two years before determining that it was too long. No wonder philosophy has not advanced farther in the past 2,500 years.] ”