[anigbrowl]

This really needed to be coupled with a requirement to cap per article charges for grant-funded work

It'd be nice if there were just a different model. I do a lot of research in a niche field and would like to publish some of it. But the enormous submission fees are unaffordable as a non-academic with no connection to grant infrastructure. I had thought that rigor and reproducibility would be the main hurdles, but it's pretty discouraging to have or be close to publication-quality datasets and discover how steep the financial wall is. I was aware of submission fees for papers, but until recently had been under the impression that they were an order of magnitude lower.