The manuscript was desk rejected within minutes of being "Under Review", apparently after being reviewed by "a team of professional editors", the Editor and an Editorial Board member. (It takes me a few days to read and provide a thorough review of any manuscript and so this speed was, euphemistically, impressive!) Frankly, I do not think this was anything beyond shunting a good paper to another venue of the publisher with the view of boosting the IF of that venue. This is a current practice with many publishers and it is a joke (a bad one).
