Paywalls drive me absolutely nuts on sites like the New York Times. I get it, they have to make money and physical newspaper sales are dying. Surviving in a digital age, sure. For some reason I am more likely to seek out the information elsewhere for free than to pay for it/ I have no sense of loyalty to those publications or their journalists.
I guess more simply put, as a millennial I don’t really want to pay for something I’ve received for free for the majority of my life and as mentioned in the article, the value to satisfy my curiosity just isn’t there.