Your point is a good one, but there are often workarounds for content that is otherwise paywalled. For instance, ft.com content is (mostly) paywalled on its own

Your point is a good one, but there are often workarounds for content that is otherwise paywalled. For instance, ft.com content is (mostly) paywalled on its own site, but a fair bit is syndicated elsewhere (sometimes in ArsTechnica, for instance) and searching for a headline often provides an alternative source with no paywall. Other workarounds involve archive services, or, in the case of your example, things like this: https://sci-hub.ru/10.1177/00207314211015806 https://sci-hub.ru/10.1177/00207314211015806 Elsewhere, HN readers sometimes provide relevant extracts of paywalled articles in comments. Anyhow, those are my thoughts. I don't like being excluded from content, but there are often ways to read it anyway.