I don't think many seriously supported the fork to fork over the Steem of Steemit...but it turned out to be a pretty good thing, with decentralized development of Steem possibly being more of a real thing in the future.

I don't think forks are a bad thing...unless they undermine the integrity of the coin we're all betting on... We will have many forks in the future. Some of them may split the community. We faced a far more serious fork in the future if this change hadn't happened. Eventually a group of developers would face off with Steemit over how they have just plain sucked with documentation and helping third party development. Then, we would have a fork over decentralized development likely and that definitely would have split the community. Many of the best members of the community would leave for the other fork...and Steemit would end up leading a chain where they were the sole developers...and be a joke of the entire crypto community.

So, yeah, good thing.