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Correct me if I'm wrong, but if you don't value what a publisher is offering, you could publish your paper on your own, make it accessible to an audience of your choosing with a delivery of your choice (for example, the wonderful work of Aphyr, here: http://jepsen.io/).

I don't get why people would try to publish in high-tier venue. To me it seems much more about polishing one's ego instead of improving the research quality.

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As a young researcher, you need the publications when you apply for academic positions. High-tier venue publications are easily recognized as such. To recognize high-quality work published in a low-tier venue, the only metric is citations. Accumulating citations takes a long time (you might not have) and is helped by active marketing (you might not do).

This is more about quick-polishing your image than your ego. ;)

Researcher has to have some amount of authority in his field to receive grants. Publishing in high-tier venue is a good way to get that authority because it is how people-with-money judge researchers :-)

Well I really enjoy reading articles from top-tier venues (PL theory). It means that committee does a good work filtering and improving articles, definitely not without mistakes.

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