I hate this. Honestly, I'd love to see short papers. Just cite what is relevant and not much else. But I see citations exploding. Look at this paper[0], it is 34 pages in total and 5.5 of those are the bibliography! It has almost 100 references! ~14 pages are images (not figures... images). Nearly an entire page worth of material is just the citations! Not the text referencing the citations, but the citations themselves. It is absolute chaos.

No, this isn't a survey paper. So it is serving no purpose other than greasing their peers.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.11435