@aeva @TheZouave
I agree; it *is* a crappy bandaid.
But it's a crappy bandaid that even researchers have done for decades, because all incentives point toward keeping this crappy system and no incentives point away.
Again, the first thing needed would be a modern replacement for pdf *files*, one that does things so much better it's worth the pain of switching. The main audience for papers is other researchers and web pages don't work.