Tbh i've never seen the problem with artists requiring a reasonable percentage of the publishing for the songs they cut.
All of the risks and financial investments into a songs sucxess falls squarely on the artist. It costs millions to promote a single, all of those costs for recording, promotional appearances, radio, video budget etc. All of that gets recouped by the label from the artists cut not the writers/producers. If the song underperforms it's the artist who gets the public lashing for flopping and the risk of being dropped from their label.
Many songs are only big entirely because of the artist that released them. To me its like on that show Shark Tank, if you want a major well connected investor to sink time, funds, resources, and reputation behind your creation you are likely gonna have to come up off percentage of rights and ownership to your product. Usually those are projects that took years of time to invent/develop compared to a song that took a writer 10 min in a McDonalds drive-thru to write and they usually ask for way more than 10% ownership.
