> Hopefully over time rather than having everyone choose their own licenses we end up with some form of standardisation.
Yes; if you're going to do this, then using AGPL is so much better than flavor-of-the-week license.
> If the core companies maintaining them did not do this they would eventually die and these projects would slowly rot.
It sounds like you're suggesting that anything but hard-copyleft is doomed to die out, which is a somewhat hard argument to make in a world with lots of counterexamples (postgres, the assorted BSD OSs, kubernetes, Android).
Yes; if you're going to do this, then using AGPL is so much better than flavor-of-the-week license.
> If the core companies maintaining them did not do this they would eventually die and these projects would slowly rot.
It sounds like you're suggesting that anything but hard-copyleft is doomed to die out, which is a somewhat hard argument to make in a world with lots of counterexamples (postgres, the assorted BSD OSs, kubernetes, Android).