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Your analysis seems predicated on your own ignorance of the OpenWRT project, and human nature.

How many system-level developers do you know who'd throw themselves into creating a new project, hashing out the governance, etc unless the alternative was even worse? I know, roughly, none.

I'm an OpenWRT user, not a developer, and it seemed pretty clear, even from that distance, that there was something broken given the way infrastructure problems were (or weren't) dealt with earlier this year.

I recognize many of the developers committed to the new project, and my understanding from others is that the new project includes many of the most active OpenWRT developers.

Clearly it would be better if they didn't feel this fork was necessary, but for now, I think this fork is promising.