On the consumer-dev side, more forks make discoverability much harder. It really helps when there's a canonical place to find a given piece of software. Having

On the consumer-dev side, more forks make discoverability much harder. It really helps when there's a canonical place to find a given piece of software. Having to follow comment threads across various platforms to find the most stable version with that feature you want is a huge pain. Also the core dev(s) for larger projects are usually somewhat responsive, whereas devs who fork to add their one feature usually aren't signing up for that core maintainer experience when they do so.