Do Publishing companies' policies and journals' approaches provide a good service to scientific research and the selection of the best works, or has the topic become solely for monetary gain?

Under these conditions, what is the real return for researchers and research-producing institutions, given the deteriorating policy of evaluating and ranking universities based on publications rather than the quality of the educational process as the primary criterion?

Publishing has become a profession in itself and a mediation between researchers and publishers on the other hand.