It you're gonna get all ethical, surly you have also heard, how hard it is to get out of those subscriptions?

How about when an article gets changed (or removed), without archiving sites, how would you know?

At the end of the day, if its "actually" valuable to someone (e.g their livelyhood depends on it or something), they will probably pay for it.

Yup! I'm very careful about my subscriptions. But if I don't agree with the business model, I just don't consume the product. I don't see it as my place to arbitrarily dictate how others should be paid for the fruits of their labor.

Maybe better put. Someone else being unethical doesn’t absolve me of ethics, imho.

"Someone else being unethical doesn’t absolve me of ethics" - Fair point!