I also do the same myself. Internally within my company I use Linux and MySQL, both of which are GPL'd software and I am a very happy user of both software products and never felt like I was restricted in how I can use them.
If I wish to incorporate MySQL into commercial software, then I'd need to pay Oracle for a license, but I have no need to do that.
In what way is any of this incredibly restrictive?
At any rate, I don't know that we're going to change one another's minds on this issue, all I can say is that there seems to be a fairly substantial group of users who do not feel restricted in how they use very popular GPL software such as Ad Block, Wordpress, Git, Linux, MySQL.
I use all of those and never once felt like they restricted my usage.
If a user wants to integrate my software into their commercial software, then they in turn pay me for their commercial use of my software.
If a user wants to integrate my software into their software to distribute it freely, then they don't pay me.
The only time a problem exists is when someone wants to integrate my software into their software for commercial purposes and doesn't want to pay me for it.