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I would have expected a fork by now. A mariadb situation.
What’s stopping the users from just pushing everything to GitHub and work from there?
Nothing is stopping anyone from doing that, other than perhaps the scale.
WordPress is like 40-something% of all websites: it's the most used blog/cms/whatever platform by a huuuuge margin.
If you wanted to fork it, you'd need pretty substantial resources, a lot of committed people, and the willingness to head a giant-ass project that has millions of users, all who want different things.
It really isn't a trivial undertaking, if you're serious about it.
I would, however, expect that the big providers (Flywheel, Cloudways, WPEngine, etc.) will probably make a corpo-sponsored fork sooner rather than later, since their business depends on it, and they've got the aforementioned money and people to do it.