Two thoughts: - Most of the journals I publish in do a considerable amount of layout, and I find this to be a significant value in reading papers. - At least

Two thoughts: - Most of the journals I publish in do a considerable amount of layout, and I find this to be a significant value in reading papers. - At least one of the academic societies I'm in is essentially financially dependent on the income they make from allowing $Publisher to publish their society journal. My corner of science would be considerably worse off if that was dropped.