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Btw. You'd be surprised how many academics favor the good old publisher system over open access. The exorbitant library fees were always from the general budget. The open access publishing fees get charged to the labs publishing. And yes, often 1 layer down it is all the same government subsidies payed by your tax dollar. But the last layer just sees my dollar vs not my dollar.

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The "goodest-oldest" publisher system is the learned societies that neither charge authors fees to publish nor lock their publications behind a paywall. These learned societies don't need to charge anyone any money (except for actual hardcopy printed volumes) because their operations are covered by the interest on massive endowments stretching as far back as the 19th century. Many national academies of science, and in the former Eastern Bloc the academic-publishing system inherited from the socialist era, work similarly. I'm lucky to be in a field where nearly all our journals and monographs are published this way (and Anna's Archive will have the rest), and it's a lot better than both the "good-old" system you refer to and modern "open access".

open access before Ai was mostly slop - with Ai its going to be a higher volume of slop.

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