That's kinda true with every open source software. As soon as some branch has a sizable chunk of developers, forks are discouraged, because either you need to

That's kinda true with every open source software. As soon as some branch has a sizable chunk of developers, forks are discouraged, because either you need to keep up or give up eventually. That's what makes torvalds/linux special and why people want to upstream. If the upstream doesn't accept: oh well.