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][1]


  [1]: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/open-access/statistics