Academics by and large do bypass restrictions. I hardly ever come across papers I can't find a PDF of just by googling their titles, and when once in a while that doesn't work I can always just email the contact author; every published paper specifies one.
This question strikes me as propaganda. The gold open access policy discourages people from publishing by putting a price on publication, and is enriching academic publishers more than ever. For example, are numbers about how much money is being spent by UCL on "gold open access" / bribing to publish. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/open-access/statistics