That's not really what they're trying to do. What they're trying to do is make it so challenging to host MongoDB as a service that cloud providers can't do it.

That's not really what they're trying to do. What they're trying to do is make it so challenging to host MongoDB as a service that cloud providers can't do it. They implemented it with an absurd requirement forcing contributions to open source, but the intent is not to improve open source, it's to end regain market control.