Sure, I'd love for quality journalism to be sustainable, but that's no reason to keep ourselves ignorant while it isn't sustainable, a situation which may or may not end in our lifetimes.

Also, this is the NYT we're talking about here, the outfit that promoted the fiction about "weapons of mass destruction" in Iraq and doxxed Scott Alexander while insinuating he was a Nazi. It's not a good choice for a poster child for "quality journalism".