Comment on Chinese Publisher MDPI Added to List of Questionable Publishers by sustainability person

I’ve read a couple of pieces in MDPI’s journal Sustainability and they are usually as good as some of the less prestigious journals published by Sage, Elsevier or publishers usually recognized as legitimate. I’ve considered sending a manuscript there and checked your site for information.
I find it a little bit usually that 1) you would criticize a digital publisher for not having a fancy building and 2) you call it a “Chinese” publisher when it is located in Switzerland. Granted, it may have a Chinese person in a leadership role but it’s not accurate to call it a “Chinese publisher”. Honestly, that feels like an unfair swipe to de-legitimize the publisher. If a publisher has a fancy building its probably because they are extracting huge fees from university libraries all over the world.
I don’t think I will send a manuscript there but I don’t really find some of your criticisms convincing. It would be better for you to focus on criticisms of the peer review process, the quality of the work, etc. MDPI’s journals are probably about the same quality as some of the lesser publications of the leading publishers, but this blog post is enough to turn me off. Plus, a Chinese guy works for them and their office is shabby. Who wants to publish with that type of company?