These are product choices. If the flags aren't flexible enough, that's one thing. That flags need flipping is simply the result of disagreement, which is both healthy and rational.
One presumes anyone who has been doing this long enough understands that forking can be as traumatic & risky as product cancellation/spinoff. The thing about this example is that the gamble paid off! It's upstream that harmed itself (mostly).
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I think it's too early to tell if it paid off... personally, I think it will do more harm than good to the web, specially if security and feature patches are not being incorporated. Short term profits, long term damage/stagnant web. Hope I'm wrong and that you are right tho.
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You are wrong.
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. Therein lies the problem: in that by flipping flags one can be painted "anti-Web", when some features perhaps should never been implemented in the first place (a failure of governance).