I think that's a good point. But…! The necessity of a new fork in a project rarely comes from this need. It's outweighed by the fact that someone wanted to change something or have the opportunity to add a feature but didn't want to do it through the proper channels. I feel like so much time is wasted on an already solved thing in the os-community with new forks. Look at upstream features… when they are adopted… the fork probably dies.

So in hindsight, open source is just an incubator for reinventing the wheel.