I agree, and just want to add: nowadays it's super common for researchers to widely publicize their new work on social media. The blog post here even mentions "Table 5 from the paper was often included in tweets".
In this context of sharing your results very publicly, it seems only fair that rebuttals would be very public, too. Otherwise researchers would be highly incentivized to very publicly publish weak results because they would get a lot of positive publicity when they share the results, but not much negative publicity when the weaknesses are found and shared.
In this context of sharing your results very publicly, it seems only fair that rebuttals would be very public, too. Otherwise researchers would be highly incentivized to very publicly publish weak results because they would get a lot of positive publicity when they share the results, but not much negative publicity when the weaknesses are found and shared.