@laund @CoMaps I'll remind you that we're already talking about the fork of a fork. You seem to convolute 2 things and that's clearly shown in the 'it will inevitably slow down development some small amount'. That's the developer-oriented mindset, which is too often present in FOSS community. It's beautiful for people to create tools for themselves and share them, but then let's not pretend we're doing anything for the masses.
For your average user the switch from any mainstream solution to the OSM-first was probably painful enough that they'll either: a) stay with the original project, b) drop OSM altogether and come back to Google's safe pastures.
We have techno-monopolies in huge part thanks to how people will adapt to negative changes as long as they do not require them to download a new app with a slightly different UI.
Come on, that's clear even from the fiasco of the whole #ExiTT