This is the correct way to go about it imho. A real hard fork would inevitably fall behind upstream and the project will eventually be abandoned. Theia[1] is a

This is the correct way to go about it imho. A real hard fork would inevitably fall behind upstream and the project will eventually be abandoned. Theia[1] is a bit closer to a hard fork. They even try very hard to avoid saying outright they're just a rebranded VS Code, using euphemism such as "Theia embraces many of the design decisions [of VS Code] and even directly supports VS Code extensions." 1. https://theia-ide.org/ https://theia-ide.org/