Please excuse if this rant comes off as a bit "defensive", but I personally do not appreciate the tone of the article. Having said that, I do realise that it was written 4 years ago, and many things have changed since. I understand that we do not see eye to eye on this matter, but I wonder if you have taken the time to read https://backdropcms.org/philosophy and try to understand what this means for the various categories of Drupal users (site builders, developers, site owners). Just please try to keep an open mind, and you will realise that there are two sides of this story...

In essence it seems the main reason is conservatism and fear of all the new things that come with Drupal 8

You are very wrong here, but at least you did say "it seems" :D ....well no, that is by far not the main reason; if fact it is not a reason at all. There is no "conservatism" as you say when it comes to features for the end user. There is no fear of ALL things that come with D8 (in fact Backdrop has had CKEditor, CMI and Views in core since version 1.0.0); what does exist though is simply fear of the cost in time and $$ of the change from D7 to D8. If you care to find out more about this, the I suggest you take a read at this article: Change My View: D8 isn't the best upgrade path for 1000 D7 EDU sites ...which explores saving $$ in cases of large-scale installations. To see what this means for use cases on a much smaller scale, also try to consider the impact to groups of people like small business owners (very small budget or no budget), people that have limited knowledge of advanced dev skills but who still want to give Drupal a chance and contribute, as well as devs working in less privileged countries that have only low-end hosting and low-end computers available to them.

My point is this: the fork was NOT a mere capricious move on the part of 2 or 3 people. It was NOT a "Don't go D8" obsession. It is a "Please do not kill D7 while you go D8" cry of many.

Also curious to see what you think of the slow adoption rate of D8 by the way, and how you explain that fact. My personal take is that it is a manifestation of the resistance of many to what seems to be an attempt to create niches/elites of highly skilled developers. But I might be wrong, or this might not be entirely intentional; not by everyone at least ...and at least, although I just stated that it is my personal belief that this has some dose of truth in it, I will never go on saying that this is the main drive behind all the "radical" changes that are (intentionally or unintentionally) excluding a big portion of the Drupal community.

It is impossible to assess how harmful a fork will be for the future of Drupal, if Backdrop succeeds in attracting even a small fraction of our developers and users.

I would not call it attracting, rather than effort to retain those that have already been considering leaving Drupal-land to jump over to WordPress or other CMSes. It is an effort to provide a "home" to people that feel that the "ambitious experiences" are not for them. People that see that Drupal that they have grown to love over the years is actually being steered towards "Enterprise". Consider Backdrop an alternative choice to D8 if you like. I would also ask you this: considering the amount of change in code, would you consider Backdrop to be the fork, or perhaps D8? ...to me personally, D8 is a whole different "product". Mind you that because Backdrop values backwards compatibility, it had an upgrade path from D7 since day one of its existence. D8 on the other hand, is still to this day struggling to get a migration path in place.

More probable however will be the fork's natural death.

This comment in specific made me smile :) ...I know you do not mean bad, but after 4+ years ...well, guess what?

Dear creators of Backdrop, why not apply this 'collaboration over competition' philosophy to the bigger picture, and instead of forking Drupal, be more present in the discussion groups and steer the development of Drupal 9 into the direction you feel comfortable with?...

Personal disclaimer: I am not one of the "creators" of Backdrop CMS; I was not making $$ out of Drupal, but was an active member of the community for 6+ years (a total of 9 years, but my contributions during the last 4 years have shifted to Backdrop); Drupal has been my hobby and personal way of contributing to a worldwide community for good; I am now employed by an enterprise-focused digital agency, so I am making $$ out of my Drupal knowledge; Still not making $$ out of Backdrop; I am honoured to have been nominated to become a member of the Backdrop CMS Project Management Committee, and have been serving my role as such, Although I have skilled up over the last couple of years and now speak D8/composer/docker/what-have-you to various extends (still learning), I am still representing the non-dev site builders of the community (point-and-clickers), because that is how I have started; Each time I contribute to Backdrop, I do not think of how it would benefit me personally (not in a "material" way anyway - still getting my thrills about it though); ...what I always have in my mind is how to lower the barrier; how to make it easy for the "small" guy/gal to get into learning Drupal/Backdrop without having a hard time; At the same time, I am trying to convey to them that despite what they might be being told, their skills ARE good enough, they DO NOT need to follow "industry-proven" standards that require more skills, more time, more $$. Backdrop CMS is fun ...same fun as "humble" D7 ...not so much as the "ambitious" D8, but if you start low, and given time, you will evolve from that average Joe/Joette to become the highly-skilled person who at some point will realise that this is actually collaboration, and what they have been forcing on you was actually competition. They just got things wrong ...that is the big picture ;)

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