This is the problem with monopolistic for-profit publishers. They have little incentive to fulfill their structural role once they don't need to compete for sub

This is the problem with monopolistic for-profit publishers. They have little incentive to fulfill their structural role once they don't need to compete for subscriptions. Researchers are still the heart of peer review but our time and funding are squeezed and parasitized from every direction. Billion dollar publishers who contribute almost nothing to the scientific process are carried on the backs of researchers making $60k/year or less who could be making double in industry. Much progress has been made in spite of elsevier. If the money they effectively take away from science were instead put into grants to fund more of this kind of detective work everything would be better.