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I think you are kinda right about gpl inviting bureaucracy into projects, but this really only happens with large stuff like the linux kernel. Anything with a foundation or something huge behind it is the real issue. You can see FFMPEG is constantly getting requests by google and other companies to add features because those companies rely on the software, yet most don't contribute to the development. If it were not gpl then these companies would just fork and have their own internal version which you are right, they already do that anyway but they don't want to because it costs them money.
BUT the GPL SHOULD legally stop companies from taking the work of a developer and using it in their paid software. This is important because the whole idea of unix is that everything is made up of components that are small enough for anyone to understand and create new modules which interact with those components, thus being truly open source and free for the common man to understand and modify. The GPL would give you, a single guy making a small component, the protections needed to stop a company from taking over your creation from underneath you like what happened to this guy: https://philiplaine.com/posts/getting-forked-by-microsoft/