I think you're probably right, however, it also seems like there's been value in those hard forks simply because we get to experiment with alternate ways to bui

I think you're probably right, however, it also seems like there's been value in those hard forks simply because we get to experiment with alternate ways to build the system. Often, it seems like the original project will take the best ideas from the fork and integrate them; those are ideas that might not have been created otherwise.