The experiences of hostile or unfriendly reviews are indeed reported in the memoirs of Albert Einstein. His reaction was very decisive as we can read in the materials available in the public domain:
(Courtesy of the University of Minnesota Archives.) Einstein stopped submitting work to the Physical Review after receiving a negative critique from the journal in response to a paper he had written with Rosen on gravitational waves later in 1936.
We can pose a question what are consequences of such an action? It is difficult to predict but we know a few seminal papers published outside of the peer review system. The history is the most objective reviewer of ideas.
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Please consider also the following comparison of the peer review during the Einstein era and now: