If authors kept their copyrights and submitted the articles to the likes of sci-hub themselves, they would enjoy higher citations and virtually everyone would d

If authors kept their copyrights and submitted the articles to the likes of sci-hub themselves, they would enjoy higher citations and virtually everyone would do this and all this would be legal. But now journals are keeping uncountable number of articles as hostage in order to parasitize on publicly funded institutions and universities. Higher education places in Africa and other poor parts of the world that don't have resources are unable to lawfully access the papers, it's not just morally wrong, the current system is throttling the progress of science and harms the research in important subjects.