Even if this were the case, then it's still very easy to control the market because of the authorship fees coupled with the drive toward publishing in subscript

Even if this were the case, then it's still very easy to control the market because of the authorship fees coupled with the drive toward publishing in subscription-model journals (thanks again to Impact Factor). Maybe your advisor took care of some of those costs, but most journals do have a significant fee for submission alone, not to mention the re-submission after a review requires a significant change. Sci-Hub can't change that so it still doesn't doom them. Not to mention Elsevier, till exempel, WILL be cracking down on piracy especially after their grant from the US courts regarding Sci-Hub. Sci-hub hasn't doomed anything and the publishers still control academia. You should be mad about this, and you should blame academia itself. Push for open journals like PLoS One when possible and try to convince people to move off that god-awful Impact Factor metric and you might inflict damage on the big publishers.