As a scientist, we desperately need it. Corporate ownership of publishing platforms is driving science down extremely badly, while exploiting all parties besides themselves.

Many folks at our institution, including myself, simply cannot afford to publish high-rank open-access articles, and with paid articles, our reach will be minimized, especially now that Sci-Hub does not automatically scrape articles after 2021.

The latter also strikes the other way, as many recent articles are simply unavailable if your institution is not shilling millions to subscribe to all possible publishers. So often a seemingly great article addressing exactly the specific part required is behind a paywall by the unavailable publisher.

Finally, plenty of older articles are lost to time and cannot be found because the hosting platforms have gone down and pirates didn't step in timely.

All in all, fuck publishers and let's go fix that shit ASAP. Science is absolutely destroyed by greed nowadays.