Thank you for your thoughts on the fork and thank you @anyx for bringing some acknowledgement to the influence of witness politics on platform development. This is something I think has been seriously downplayed by regular users, to the point of potentially preventing a healthy open discussion. There has been a lot of fear to disagree on basic principles and a lot of reactionary fighting on miniscule day-to-day "he said/she did/they should".

(I don't have a solution for it, except "talk more openly about it and don't be afraid to adjust your votes, even if it means less votes/money for you in the short term".)

The fork seems mostly good (my armature opinion and priorities), provided it will be stable and not subject to abuse, which is hard to know and even worse for most people who are not always up to date with the conversations taking place amongst developers.