

they can even keep it proprietary if they wanted to.
Yes, with the caveat that it would have to be an internal piece of software, or if it’s a public facing tool then it would have to be under a non-copyleft licence. But yeah, for 99% of use cases they could have a proprietary fork.
Yeah, you can write this type of article about literally any product that has ever released in the history of the world. Some percentage of them break quickly, it’s everything else around the story that matters like what percent it is and how the company reacts to it.