Did you notice I used the exact same title as the video?

Then his title is a clickbait misrepresentation of the point he is making in his own video. ;)

he was a bit hard on the pay per play (as he should be, I think)

Definitely, and he should be.

but maybe could have spent some time on how important open access to information is, if we can figure out a good motivational system to keep the quality high.

As I said above, there are plenty of examples of open access publishers with very high editorial standards. The issue is not with open access, it is with fraudulent journals.