You disagree philosophically, and that’s ok. Everyone deserves to get paid for their work. I will remark however that marginal cost of a line of code has dropped considerably in the last year…

I do think that SN hints at a general core idea that software trends towards more permissive or free licenses over time.

AGPL from the beginning is noble, but ultimately limits reach. Delegation to the commons of “deciding how their work gets treated” that permissive licenses grant is exactly how software products get popular. Changing the rules when you get successful (competitors reselling your product and you not getting a cut) is of course an option, but so is taking the last known free and open version and building something new from it.