to take things in their own direction And there is evidence that this is true. Node itself has had to make major changes to it's own code to account for unila

to take things in their own direction And there is evidence that this is true. Node itself has had to make major changes to it's own code to account for unilateral V8 changes, and node really has had no choice but to suck it up and make corresponding changes. They could fork V8, but it's not likely since Google is always going to be able to throw more resources at it.