Not disagreeing with what you said but it's not like BTC has undergone that many forks of its own volition...ie. a fork for the health and progress of its own network driven by its community/devs. So a fork would be a pretty momentous deal for the grandaddy of cryptos.
bitcoin actually had many forks that improved it over the years.
we had a couple of hard forks that disabled some of the OP codes and added some new ones (OP_NOPs)
we had a backward incompatible hard fork in early days to solve a bug (value overflow).
we had another major soft fork similar to SegWit in early days that enabled a new script evaluation scheme known as BIP16 or you may know it as P2SH
we had 2 different soft forks enabling 2 new OP codes
and more...