This is the closest I've seen to people attacking the problem at its root. Academics need grants to survive, and they will go after them even if it means being

This is the closest I've seen to people attacking the problem at its root. Academics need grants to survive, and they will go after them even if it means being forced to publish in a lower-tier journal. Over time the lower-tier journals gain more status since the high-dollar grant chasing academics start publishing high quality research in them. The paywalled journals ideally subsequently either diminish in quality, lowering the incentive to publish there or switch to an open-access model.