This might very well be by design. Why make it hard for those who wouldn‘t pay anyway to get to their articles? This seems to me like exactly the right way to d

This might very well be by design. Why make it hard for those who wouldn‘t pay anyway to get to their articles? This seems to me like exactly the right way to do this (if their pricing weren’t so strange). It will be interesting to see whether they will make it harder or whether everything stays the same. I could imagine that they get desperate and introduce much more drastic DRM should their pricing not work out.