This is narrow sighted. In practice the Universities pay the very high fees. The major University in Paris where I did my Ph.D. and work has cut more and more of those accesses through the years and they seemed extremely expensive.
Before 1990 the activity of a scientific journal was somehow more complicated and costly which somehow justified the subscription cost. With the current Internet infrastructure and tools, paywalls feel more and more like symbols of legacy monopolistic economy rent.
You should at least glance at the table of contents of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_science and read those short sections "Publicly funded science will be publicly available" and "Disadvantages".
Before 1990 the activity of a scientific journal was somehow more complicated and costly which somehow justified the subscription cost. With the current Internet infrastructure and tools, paywalls feel more and more like symbols of legacy monopolistic economy rent.
You should at least glance at the table of contents of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_science and read those short sections "Publicly funded science will be publicly available" and "Disadvantages".