From a political perspective, yes for sure. From a technical perspective, less so. The Cats ecosystem and ZIO are meaningfully different with their designs that

From a political perspective, yes for sure. From a technical perspective, less so. The Cats ecosystem and ZIO are meaningfully different with their designs that the two evolving separately isn't so bad in my opinion. The Scalaz/Cats schism was worse in the sense that they were largely the same (at least at the time) which led to a lot of duplicated effort.