For those fields with an existing market, meaning there is more than one high quality journal, the market will provide the right incentives for those publishers.
For those fields with an existing market, meaning there is more than one high quality journal, the market will provide the right incentives for those publishers.
That top tier publishers create new low-tier journals for this market shows that they are very well aware of these incentives and risks. They are not flooding their top journals with low quality OA "pay to publish" articles, which was the argument from OP.
One hope might be that it incentivises institutions away from the publish or perish mind set and starts to discourage salami slicing and other such practices, allowing researchers to focus on putting out less work of a higher quality, but I suspect the fees would need to be larger to start seeing this sort of change.