It can be forked it if the opinions are widely shared and you think people will support you to run it better ? The tone of the article seemed to be casting shade relative to the institution funding it's development as the foundation of why there are problems ? It's normal in a large scale open lanuage there will be disagreement around direction of the project.

Many models around how those disagreements are resolved exist across many projects. You can choose one of them or build your own project and make your own decisions :)