I'm not even sure how what you're saying relates to what I said; of course no license can be retroactively changed and I never said anything to the contrary. By rug pull, I mean companies like Sentry or MongoDB starting off as open source then changing their license such that they are no longer open source, making it a much more difficult legal minefield for whomever uses their product, even if they aren't competing with them, as they are now source available companies. As a copyright holder, any license can be changed for the future, whether it be MIT, AGPL, or BSL. With regards to a new project, sure, they can license it however they want but if it's not open source, they should expect to get way fewer contributions than if it were.