This whole thing makes him look like a vulture. Just let the theme die or let someone make a better one from scratch.
The reason he forked it in the first place is, as he said himself, because he's famous.
Could you elaborate? I have no idea who “Theo of internet drama fame” is.
Essentially an internet personality. While they sometimes make interesting points, mostly on X, Twitch, and YouTube, he often seems to interject himself into a lot of things needlessly. Before this Material thing, it was that Wordpress incident.
If the size of your paycheck depends on drama and making a surprised look in a YouTube thumbnail you would possibly insert yourself into the middle of things also