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This week the editorial board of a ___Wiley___ journal in ___economics___ resigned because of pressure from the publisher to relax editorial standards and specificity in favor of growth: https://retractionwatch.com/2024/02/12/econ-journal-board-quits-en-masse-because-wiley-appeared-to-emphasize-quantity-over-quality/

Retraction Watch maintains a growing list of these mass resignations at https://retractionwatch.com/the-retraction-watch-mass-resignations-list/ but I've heard unsubstantiated rumors of at least one (in a non-STEM field) that's not on their list and I suspect there are more.

In the current era of demands for open access to scientific research, it seems to me that the only safeguard against profit-motivated corruption of the literature is diamond-model or low-cost open access publications from which the profit motive has been removed.