Seems clear to me: "change the system so that publications in big-name journals are not important for career advancement." There are many fields that don't have this requirement, or anything like it, and the suggestion is that academia join their ranks.

The "alternative solution" to having a thing that wacks people on the head every Tuesday is...not having it.

Businesses have money. Governments have votes. What measurable quantity do you propose for scientific work? Votes of colleagues? It's even more corrupt.

Are you familiar with the concept of Chesterton’s fence?

Well, simply, for senior researchers to stop making big-time publications so high-up on the list to hire people. I know quite a few senior researchers, and they do have some say in it...