People generally aren’t surprised by the effects of the MIT license, they’re surprised by the behavior of other humans.
Wait, people give other people the right to make proprietary variants of released source code and then are surprised when they exercise that right?
Less permissive licenses protect against that.
No, other licenses don’t protect against not understanding which rights are granted. The GPL, for example, allows to make proprietary web services using GPL code and to never release any modifications to that code. Many people were very surprised many years ago that some web-based messenger could use Pidgin’s libpurple to connect to ICQ etc. without ever giving anything back.