While I certainly can admit that our teams communication with the community can be improved, the talk of forking the protocol likely takes us down the wrong path.
I agree that forking will end in disaster. But its headed into disaster anyway.
Mastercoin is finished in its current format, you can quote me on that. Either try something different which doesn't represent a challenge to Counterparty directly and tries to solve a different problem, or abandon it entirely.
It could be extended to do something beyond what counterparty is doing. But I'm skeptical if anyone is really interested in that, or just busy with other things. It's hard to tell.
Is JR ever going to chime in?