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I would not say that most academics are "perfectly fine with the status quo". But I would say that most academics have enough competing interests taking their time away from research that they're uninterested in taking on another one with such uncertain payoff.

In a way bringing about the kind of change you reference in scientific publishing would actually be a pretty significant research accomplishment -- the field would be that much better for your efforts! But the road to get there is filled with political wrangling, talking to and serving on committees, probably forming dedicated organizations and painstakingly getting buy-in. This is not something you can realistically achieve without probably a good career's worth of political capital in your field and the drive and people skills to make it happen.

Until it does happen, making your own lab adhere to these standards is admirable but with unfortunately limited upside. I'm not saying the status quo is good, just that there are reasons for it still being the status quo.