Not a fork, but I'm building an application on my own that's roughly meant to be equivalent to Home Assistant, on account of some entertainment related projects

Not a fork, but I'm building an application on my own that's roughly meant to be equivalent to Home Assistant, on account of some entertainment related projects with very low budgets, and some big complaints about how Home Assistant treats SD cards. Even though it's not a fork, I have constant problems with trivial changes in libraries between versions. I'd think a fork could be even worse. I suspect someone with an hour a day, or a few hours a week, could maintain a fork of LibreOffice and keep it in sync with upstream, if they didn't change too much, but it would suck. The ability for small companies to do forks is where the real benefit is IMHO. I'm using Kiwi Browser on Android, which seems to get security updates within a few days of Chromium, and supports extensions on mobile.