We can fork many times in the future when consensus does not like when a development team does something we disagree with, this is open source.
This is part of the reason I am very anti-Core dev team at the moment, though. They are on record saying these kinds of forks are harmful. I got involved in Bitcoin because it is open-source, and because the idea was that the majority finally have some power over the minority (i.e. us regular folks over banks).
You do understand an alt-client is completely different from a fork, and to change the network consensus is not Core dev's job?
Bitcoin NEEDS to be forkable when the community decides they don't like where something is going.
FWIW I am still waiting for a referendum to organize around this issue, if you really want to be democratic certainly somebody should get us all to vote?
Also, RBF was certainly not consensus... maybe consensus of the devs but... most people's comments I read are quite against it.
No disagreement here, it's almost like they want to be hated on this.