AGPL doesn't help when you want to kill your free offering to move people onto the paid tier. But quite frankly, that isn't a problem GPL is meant to solve.
We have more middle management than ever before because we cut all the other roles, and it turns out that people will desire employment, even if it means becoming a pointless bureaucrat, because the alternative is starving.
Paradoxically, the people who pay for adfree experiences would be the most valuable targets for ads, so I suspect any pay for no ads arrangement will be temporary at best.
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