Minor point on how you communicate the novelty point: I’m slightly worried about people misreading and thinking ‘oh, I have to be super original’, and then either neglecting important unoriginal things like reassessing existing work, or twisting themselves into knots to prove how original they are.
I agree with you that all else equal a new insight is more valuable than one others have already had, but as originality is often over-egged in academia, it might be worth paying attention to how you phrase the novelty criterion in particular.
Minor point on how you communicate the novelty point: I’m slightly worried about people misreading and thinking ‘oh, I have to be super original’, and then either neglecting important unoriginal things like reassessing existing work, or twisting themselves into knots to prove how original they are.
I agree with you that all else equal a new insight is more valuable than one others have already had, but as originality is often over-egged in academia, it might be worth paying attention to how you phrase the novelty criterion in particular.