[setr]

Sure it is; it’s exactly equivalent to something like forking Linux with the reasoning “I want to be the BDFL now” — eg the nvim fork

[haar]

Wasn't the driver for nvim specifically disagreements with the direction/priorities/steer of the project? Is progress in a different direction necessarily a bad thing, especially if that effort couldn't be directly applied to the original anyway?

Please someone feel free to correct me, but if I recall correctly a lot of the improvements in Vim 8 were a result of the popularity of functionality in NeoVim?

[setr]

You're correct -- which is why I've used it as an example of forking for project-control reasons to be perfectly in line with an open-source philosophy.

[ssakamoto]

No disagreements there. Contention is it's not good for the original.