If you read the conversation higher up, instead of taking what I said out of context, you'd see that I was talking about the author veiling their intentions, i.e. using the AGPL as an effective non-compete while masquerading as "open source."

They (the author aka the startup) wouldn't have chosen the AGPL if not for enterprises/bigtech/competition being scared of it.

They didn't choose AGPL to increase freedom 0 (AGPL's purpose), they chose it to decrease it.

Thus, veiled intentions.