The article's discussion of how the open access mandate works is wrong. Federally funded research, when published (even in a closed-access journal) must be deposited in https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ or a similar repository.
Edit: OA advocates have won pretty much everything we wanted, there's not much left to be outraged over.
Edit: OA advocates have won pretty much everything we wanted, there's not much left to be outraged over.