Think of it like this:

The public is a 300 year old baby called Gulliver (3 in human years).

Publishers are hordes of Lilliputians who've exploited the baby Gulliver even as they've fed and amused him.

Initially, the Lilliputians needed only a few tethers with which to swaddle their captive prodigy, but now they've had to resort to a web of their strongest steel cables as Gulliver strains to progress from years of supine quiescence and get on with the business of toddling.

The undeniable truth the Lilliputians simply can't countenance is that Gulliver is as much a publisher as they are, but a super-publisher of gargantuan proportions, and if dangerous to Lilliputians as a baby, completely unassailable as an adult.

So, what's the Lilliputians' latest strategy?

Poke Gulliver with thousands of tiny swords each time he gets restless in order to persuade him to remain subjugated to their will.

This will hasten Gulliver's inclination to finally break free - and is thus good for Gulliver.

If only the Lilliputians would realise that perhaps it's time to release Gulliver and hope they can persuade him to forgive them and take some care to avoid trampling them underfoot, perhaps even to live in harmony with them given their experience in foraging for food...

Unfortunately, I fear the Lilliputians have the mental capacity of ants and forming one giant lobby is to coordinate their attacks into more painful and poisonous puncture wounds, rather than to form a collectively superior consciousness and recognise their antlike antagonism is the worst of all possible strategies.

Set Gulliver free before he gets too upset, and he might be persuaded that his restraint was in everyone's best interest.

Otherwise, this potential oracle opines, only obliteration awaits.