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> that it's even possible to fork and continue working on both I'd consider a success in it's own way

I totally agree.

We can be upset that the Gitea people choose to profit personally on the brand, causing a hard fork, but the beauty born from the ashes is priceless: A new hard fork shakes things up, brings new initiative, people jumping in and saying they'd like to contribute.

There are other examples of forks where each direction is doing its own thing.

HackMD -> HackMD -> CodiMD -> HedgeDoc is another example. I believe they're all alive.

I believe Gogs, from which Gitea once forked, is still being developed on.

It is a healthy sign that this software is already so good that even if you hardfork and lose easy access to the advances made in the sibling branches, you probably don't need it, because the basics are there.