I would argue that competition is healthy. So the question is is a fork "true" competition or more of a "suggestion" for a feature change? Or to put it anothe

I would argue that competition is healthy. So the question is is a fork "true" competition or more of a "suggestion" for a feature change? Or to put it another way, instead of evolution happening (as in the best win and the worst die) we now have a situation where the winners and losers are decided by subjective individuals (i.e. some project manager somewhere decides to import a forked branch back into their main branch).