I agree.

People seem to judge these licenses with measures that might not mean anything to the authors or the users. There are different kinds of authors and users.

GPL authors want their rights preserved for the users. MIT authors might just want their stuff "out there", or really not care how their stuff is used.

The aregument here is sort of like judging football as more relevant than baseball because plays are more exciting but short enough to still show ads on TV.

(also both gpl and bsd licenses have been around ~40 years, so what does long run even mean?)