WordPress co-founder: A WordPress fork would be "fantastic".
WordPress co-founder and Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg, is open to people forking Wordpress.
“There might be a fork. I mean, we’ve had WordPress forks before — probably about three or four times in the history [of WordPress],” Mullenweg said in response to a question about whether he was worried about the potential of a fork.
So if you've been thinking of creating a WP fork after all of this drama...this might be your sign.
Wordpress is crappy legacy code trying to be things it was never meant to be.
Forking it doesn't solve anything.
There are far better systems today. ProcessWire and Ghost, are two I can vouch for. BTW I have worked with WordPress for years before I got fed up and decided to look for better systems.