Yes all good points showing issues that academia has at the moment.

However I often see this going from "there's issues" to discounting academia altogether and positioning private labs as a good or only alternative.

After all, most people in the open science collaboration which published the seminal paper kicking off the replication crisis were from academia.

Yes there is no substitute for academia. Monopolist's research labs get close (Bell Labs etc), but they tend to be more "applied".