On one side academics are crying about outrageous fees (rightfully so, since it's us, the taxpayers who usually pay for that), and immediately after, those same people require other academics to pay those same publishers to go up the academic ladder, get tenure, etc.
I don't know how it's in other countries, but in mine, it's the university itself that decides the requirements for their teaching stuff (including the required number of articles and scores).
On one side academics are crying about outrageous fees (rightfully so, since it's us, the taxpayers who usually pay for that), and immediately after, those same people require other academics to pay those same publishers to go up the academic ladder, get tenure, etc.
I don't know how it's in other countries, but in mine, it's the university itself that decides the requirements for their teaching stuff (including the required number of articles and scores).