True; I'm just thinking back to the absolute worst drama I can think of in Drupal land, it all pales in comparison. Most of it was misunderstandings that were subsequently sorted, or like Backdrop just a friendly fork with community connections still intact.
Well instances were both painful but in my mind mostly affected a few core groups of devs, and a lot of the community was oblivious to anything going on. The Drupal 8 migration and subsequent forking of D7 into Backdrop caused a lot more consternation with smaller agencies especially.
I mostly did Drupal stuff with local and regional camps at the time, I was hired at Acquia slightly after, so I remember a lot of pain back then, especially as Wordpress and Drupal were often considered in the same meetings when building small local sites for nonprofits, small businesses, etc.
Nowadays it seems Drupal isn't part of the conversation unless there's a C-suite at the place building the website, it's moved upmarket quite a bit.
It sure did. Dries cashed out thanks said upwards movement and then he realized this move destroyed the contributor pipeline (make a personal/charity/etc small website-tinker Drupal-contribute to Drupal) and also market share so he now tries to move it back down with Starshot. I wish him the best.
