This is a really good point. Without substantial benefits of a large universal ontology and without the ability to painlessly diverge from an ontology to not c

This is a really good point. Without substantial benefits of a large universal ontology and without the ability to painlessly diverge from an ontology to not compromise on accurately modeling a particular domain, it’s hard to see the net benefits. Everyone will want to customize things for their domain, or point of view. An ontology should be easy to fork, like a repo.