Why are you assuming there is a middle ground?
Many things in life have no real middle ground.
These "middle ground" licenses have yet to show a useful non-toxic instance that actually served their communities.
You have the burden of proof here.
Many things in life have no real middle ground.
These "middle ground" licenses have yet to show a useful non-toxic instance that actually served their communities.
You have the burden of proof here.
Almost all of these "middle ground" license cannot be combined with the normal licenses that have huge functioning communities.
even transistors, the basic underpinning of our digital worlds, have middle ground - it's the norm, not the exception, and dichotomies are almost entirely a human fiction to make things more computationally tractable
the burden is yours
Metaphors aren't really a good thinking tool here.
Instead maybe asking (as I suggested you do) if EVEN ONE of these LICENSE schemes is actually working for the community its supposed to serve vs the pr blahblah we see in their announcements?