There are actually a lot of solutions to the problem, and the author seems aware of them, as discussed at the very end of the article. There are pre-print serve

There are actually a lot of solutions to the problem, and the author seems aware of them, as discussed at the very end of the article. There are pre-print servers like arXiv, there are mega journals that have a slightly different type of peer review (what I'd call methodological review as opposed to"importance" review) like PLOS One, PeerJ, SAGE Open, etc. And yet even though the author is aware of these options, he acknowledges that it all comes down to how his publication will be perceived by his peers, and the non-traditional options simply don't yet have enough reputational weight. So fundamentally even though there are lots of other options, they aren't realistic because of the politics of academia. To be fair, most of these non-traditional systems cater almost exclusively to hard sciences and don't focus on sociology.