The general availability on the "black" market is a problem, though. It makes authors easier with a status quo that is perceived as really, really bad by those who pay the bills.

While information providers in academia (mostly still called "libraries") struggle with their budgets, being forced to discontinue some journals and are at a point where they would love to communicate their pressure to the scientists (who decide upon where they publish, with good reasons) - they cannot quite get the point through. Scientists established their own information providing ways, being it Twitter (asking their collegues for their own means) or Libgen and folks. And you could - as a scientist - always drop the author a personal inquiry in the worst case. Nevertheless, the libraries are expected to buy it by enough parties that are left out in the black market game.

It's a pretty skewed market.

Disclosure: I work at a library that has to buy journals and struggles with budget for this (as probably all libraries do).