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That's why they introduced the Affero GLP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affero_General_Public_License

Which basically means, you can't use the code at all commercially; stay very far away from the code. It's not very well defined how to be compliant.

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AGPL says no such thing. AGPL software running on the backend must be made available upon request to users who are served content by it.

It is entirely possible to use AGPL code commerically. You just have to give a copy of the source code to your user. This is no different from RMS selling copies of Emacs and giving the customers the code afterwards.

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