Here are some Nobel laureates criticizing the journal impact factor (JIF): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MQ8R0OyvyQ . Some young scientists are adopting an open-only policy and let the chips fall where they may, and several of them have been quite successful. 

In the meantime . . .

But in the meantime, here are some options for those in my colleague's position. 
Whatever journal you choose (except for a few holdouts like Am J Psychiatry and Cell Press titles—and Neurology), you can send a preprint to bioRxiv or PeerJ Preprints before you send the manuscript for publication. That protects your rights substantially. You can also try to submit a SPARC addendum to the journal’s copyright transfer form (http://www.sparc.arl.org/resources/authors/addendum) and see if the publisher accepts it. That’s what I did with my last paper for my society journal, the Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28121259/#comments). 
There are open journals with high JIF. Here is a very short list of a few I've used or considered: