That is a rather complex argument. People in favour of DORA will say that we have to choose world-renowned people of excellence through the Canada First Research Excellence Fund. How do they measure that? They won't say. However, the people on the committee will say that if someone has published in Nature, that's prestigious. Not wanting to apply criteria is therefore a form of institutional hypocrisy.
I asked people to conduct an empirical test for two or three years by randomly choosing applications, but they don't want to do it because they're afraid. They think their expensive committees pick the best applicants, but instead of giving $5 million to a so-called big university through Canada First, they could give a lot more money to a lot more researchers who are much more diverse.
I'm in favour of a broader distribution, because, in terms of probability, giving grants to more different people instead of always to the same people is more likely to result in different discoveries.