Rewriting the GNU Coreutils in Rust

> The people who care about monetization were never using permissive licenses

Some are, typically those using an 'open core' business model.

> As it turns out, "take somebody else's open source software and host it for a small fee" is an increasingly viable business model, and the Four Freedoms (particularly freedom 0) were specifically designed to allow people to do that sort of thing.

Sure. Software where only the copyright holder is allowed to monetize it is quite clearly not free, as freedom from the tyranny of the copyright holder is one of the core ideas behind both free software and open source. That being said, if an oligopolistic megacorporation uses their superior economy of scale to crush anyone else, including the original creators, from hosting an open source app that's a problem too. I don't know what 'the solution' to this would look like, though it seems the lack of success of AGPL would suggest that increasingly stringent copyleft isn't it.