You must remember that there are cases in history where the inferior technology won the race against superior technology due to market forces and where an ethical decision lost to an unethical decision also due to market forces. e.g. it is good not to cut down trees and destroy the rain forests, but as long as there is a high demand for wood and people that live at the forests don't have alternative income, the forests will be cut down.
Similarly, one can argue ethical and all sorts of arguments for and against the hf, but if the market forces are at the new fork and the VBs dev team, then that fork will be the winning fork. Any alternative forks will just be that - alternative forks that will most probably be on the losing side.
Until developers realize they don't want fbi, vb or ef as their boss.