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I don't want to enter in the merit of your company's choice, it's definitely up to you what license to use, but I'm confused about that statement around AGPL. How would AGPL harm users?

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By preventing them from using dragonfly. Many companies prohibit from dev teams(aka our users) from downloading and using agpl licensed software.

The lawyers often ban AGPL at tech cos

Which means they may pay for an alternative to the AGPL.

More likely they'll ignore the s/w. Huge amount of talent is working in such companies. Using AGPL will practically exclude them from interacting with the s/w.

Also, smaller companies like to play safe. If FAANG with their million lawyers aren't touching it, why should I take the risk.

Because unlike FAANG you don’t have millions of engineers to create the software from scratch. Companies pay for databases (Oracle, Gemstone, MsSQL, anything at Amazon). Almost all the risks (price changes, maintenance costs, etc.) can be managed adequately via a long term enterprise contract.

Yes, we’re going through this right now

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