My question is more about the general case. Is this something project authors should rely on in their future? Will it sometimes be easier to just fork? Would f

My question is more about the general case. Is this something project authors should rely on in their future? Will it sometimes be easier to just fork? Would fork-relicensing be a good thing for the community? Or should there be a different approach to ownership that does not allow for relicensing? As a contributor to some projects that relicensed, I felt pressured to accept a change that was packaged up together with some major downsides.