Honestly, it’s probably even stronger argument on Reddit because there’s routine posting of the article text or the archive version that lets people bypass the paywall.

The bigger core problem is that people don’t want to pay for information or “easily consumable”. But journalists need money to live too. So, it’s always a cat and mouse game with this. Just enough so that media can survive with their budgets or more but people don’t want to pay for money or increasing installing adblockers. Then revenue drops so the newspapers / media can’t invest in better journalists and get more clickbaity to get people to get to their site and people view it as less worth paying for. It’s a bad cycle.