This is not true. TAR editors make the final decisions and some of them are clearly not qualified.
The so called editors at TAR are actually AEs
The most 1d1ot TAR editor ruined my paper. It is so ugl1y that an super uglly person should decide about smth and that the senior editor cannot do NO thing. I repeat NO THING. It is sad that senior editor at TAR picks editors who have more B pubs. It is so shameful for TAR. It is so sad indeed that the research is becoming a very fuaking dirty game. The editor asked me do smth which was already on the paper rejecting it and you cannot complain because it got to be factual. This is why I have rejected seven consecutive papers from the uni of the editor and reviewers and they are so furious as I am and was. In fact I can see the end of TAR in horizon. I got tenure and I am publishing A-grade papers in B journals. First because of less headache and second because I want the A journals publish papers that cite B journals. Isnt that ironic?