Might there be powerful entities behind the curtain who want a forkathon and are pushing these various forks?

We will all grow weary of the forkathon and then we will grow weary of the insecurity of Core SegWit and then we will beg for the security and immutability of the original Satoshi Bitcoin:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2268216.msg23422490#msg23422490