The DAO fork happened in what was effectively Ethereum's early beta phase, when the community was very small, and there was next to no activity on the blockchai

The DAO fork happened in what was effectively Ethereum's early beta phase, when the community was very small, and there was next to no activity on the blockchain. A hard fork right now would be far more disruptive due to the amount of activity taking place on it, and would face from more opposition to a much large community.