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Scientists/Academics treat prestige as primary currency, and most would view lack of access to information just as a sign of not being in prestigious enough institution.

You are being naive if you think academia is filled with do-gooders it’s just a race but of another kind.

Unless there is a direct impact of doing something more openly e.g. accessible code base that thousands of researchers can use to publish and cite your work quickly or significant risk of getting scooped. There is very little to motivate any change.

Also if you think journals/review system is bad, just get a glimpse of “grant review” system by NSF/NIH or “tenure committees” etc. They make the worst stack ranking performance review etc. seem light hearted fun.