If you are an early career scholar facing uncertainty about publications and responding to reviewers, I want to encourage you to revise and resubmit. You don't eat a porterhouse steak in one bite, so no matter how daunting it may seem... you can do this. One comment at a time...

I never wrote any pubs from my dissertation. Or my postdoc. I had no mentoring to do this. So when I wrote my first paper as an asst. professor - and I got back three reviews of "major revisions" - I was devastated. I took it as a sign I would never be published...

...because I didn't know how to do any better. And I had nowhere to turn for mentoring.

To this day, those reviews and that unpublished, unrevised manuscript still live in a filing cabinet in my office. My own personal scarlet letter of sorts.

You can do this. Don't give up.

Take 24 hours to be upset and doubt the reviewers. Then, ask for help from your advisor, from your peers. Revise. Thank the reviewer for offering a suggestion or a critique you had not considered. Revise. One comment at a time.