The point is that people have chosen to make their code available under a license with reciprocal obligations. If someone doesn't like that, they are free not to use that code.
I think some of the reaction to your comments is the appearance of a presumption that someone who wishes to create proprietary derived works has some sort of moral entitlement to use other people's code, or that people with useful code have some sort of duty to let others create proprietary derived works. Perhaps you don't mean that, but the notion that the existence of code under pure GPL is a "problem" tends to give that appearance. Even referring to this as a "bug" is part of that appearance. A bug is something that is unambiguously wrong and benefits everyone to fix. Here, we are talking about an explicit policy decision.
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