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Major scholarly publishers do not treat post-publication correction as "essentially impossible." They have formal, documented processes for correcting published work.

• Wiley states that providing a process to correct a published article is a "core practice" of an ethical journal office, and says: "If there is an error to be corrected after an article has published in an issue, we publish a correction that will link to the original article."
• Springer Nature's support documentation says that if an error is found in a published article — including "typos" — authors should contact the publisher and request a formal correction.
• Nature/Springer also publish many concrete correction notices for typographical errors. For example, Scientific Reports published a correction stating: "The original HTML version of this Article contained a typographical error in Equation 1 ... This error has now been corrected in the HTML version." Another Nature correction says: "Finally, a minor typographical error was corrected in the Abstract. The Article has been corrected online."

So while publishers often preserve the version-of-record by documenting changes through linked correction notices rather than silently rewriting history, it is inaccurate to say correcting published work is "essentially impossible," or that even a typo cannot be corrected. Formal corrections and typo corrections are a standard part of scholarly publishing.