I can think of a great many buses I'd like to see Elsevier under. Perhaps Google can do some sort of self-driving bus to automatically do it.
Elsevier is a leech on academia and actively work against open access to papers. They run scam journals and try to strong arm university libraries into buying tons of journals they don't want to get the important ones they do.
This is why you are getting downvoted. Elsevier is hated, not loved. People see that Elsevier is locking away knowledge created by others, and aggressively working to restrict the flow of scientific knowledge.
If the Internet and the free exchange of scientific information is good and helps mankind to progress, then Elsevier represents the forces of evil working against this, retarding human progress only to maintain their ability to squeeze money out of the academic system.
Nobody is expecting Elsevier to change, but to be replaced and fade into richly deserved irrelevance.
As I see it, the reason this article is on Hacker News in the first place is that the community as a whole appreciates your publications.
If the paywall is causing some kind of riot it's actually just a projection that people care.
So frankly an opportunity to fix and redeem.
Nobody wants Elsevier under the bus. That is for damn sure.
Really hope you are reading Elsevier.
You are loved.