Making Journals Free
As much as I hate the current situation with academic publishers, they have one very valid point - prioritization.<p>They impose an artificial bottleneck on how many articles can get published, so
"published in XXX" means "one of the top X papers in the area according to a reasonable metric".<p>We have all surely noticed how journalism turned to shit when we moved from printed physical copies (with bandwidth limit) to limitless clickbait-ridden  "portals". Real decent journalism just cannot compete for readers' attention anymore.<p>There could be a reasonable middle ground - like mandated free access to individuals, or free access after a 3-year period or so, but completely killing the publishers would be throwing the baby out with the bathwater.