Why is this a failure of open-source? Isn't it exactly what open-source is supposed to do, fork when a project doesn't meet your needs? I've always found it cu

Why is this a failure of open-source? Isn't it exactly what open-source is supposed to do, fork when a project doesn't meet your needs? I've always found it curious that open-source advocates rail on people that fork or split from projects instead of maintaining code that they believe isn't worth maintaining.