And, of course, no kahuna has an “opinion” that is full of it and freely published in the top journals at the reader’s expense; oh no….. definitely not.
So what does this say?; that publication in OA actually means something if it is not so expensive? Not every PLoS journal is $2500, and I think PLoS One is $1500, where the institutes typically pay the expense from grants etc.
By making work OA, the information is freely available to everyone. There is no excuse for not reading the papers; unlike now where researchers with limited budges — including even researchers in Japan — are forced to pay $40 for an article. A paper with 100 references means $4000.
At any rate, you are entitled to your opinion, but that is all that it is.