When you read old threads, you will hear of many soft forks and including a few hard forks that gave birth to Bitcoin Cash , Bitcoin gold, Bitcoin SV. The last one should be BSV in 2018.
What happened differently that there are no threats or signs of forking?
All the forked Bitcoin versions were popular back in the day mostly due to the scaling debate. Many Bitcoiners were convinced that Bitcoin should be improved(by increasing block size or whatever) and a better version of Bitcoin should be created. This didn't work and all forked Bitcoin versions eventually failed to gain popularity(and they had their own flaws). Most forked BTC creators were trying to make quick money and some of them became rich. I also believe that most of the forked Bitcoin fans and developers moved into other "get-rich-quick" schemes like NFTs, De-Fi, memecoins, etc. Nowadays nobody in the BTC community would care about a new hardforked Bitcoin "insert random word here" shitcoin.