Plan S does the wrong things to the wrong people

As a tax payer, my opinion is that any research founded by more than 50% in taxes must be accessible to the tax payers. This should be law, as for example Belgium made it. Taxpayers should be able to go to court and demand access. Any contracts made that limit access should be deemed invalid. Careers of academics who hide outputs of their work that I had to pay for in taxes are not only worthless to me, but are effectively parasitic. I'm not even sorry to say so because academics are largely responsible for and complicit in this ridiculous situation. Having that said, the less we pay to the cronies like Elsevier, the true paracites in this disturbingly sick system, the better. Regarding the publishing model, the combination of Arxiv.org and OpenReview.net seems to work wonderfully for AI related research and seems to be very cheap. In order of tens of dollars per whole life of a paper. So, I agree that this is the direction we should be aiming for.