I don't want to offend anybody, but I think there is a need for more honesty regarding how it's all going with the reform of publishing.

I think it's not going well.

There is so much more good that could happen so rapidly. Instead, reform seems to be stuck in an illusory "tragedy of the commons", while a very real "treachery of the private" is happening. Academia is manifestly being outsmarted by corporate-directed forces.

I'd love to be proved wrong.

https://jscaux.org/blog/post/2024/03/07/reform-of-publishing/