Once again: the curation is not performed by the publisher, but by the editorial board and the reviewers, who are researchers, and are not paid by the publishers for this work.
Paid academic journal editors are rare exceptions.
From one of your own links:
Carol Barnes, professor of psychology and neurology at the
University of Arizona in Tucson, is a reviewing editor at
the Journal of Neuroscience, a 3-year appointment for which
*she receives no compensation*.
(…)
Barnes has received funding from the university to hire an
assistant to provide clerical support to assist her with
the manuscript review process. She considers herself
fortunate, because "without this help, I would have had to
decline this position."
Not only she was still paid by the university for whats seems to be a full time job during 3 years according to the article, but in addition to that the university, not the publisher, paid for an assistant to this job!
And how does that happen without any staff evaluating papers, as you claimed above?
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