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All this talk of injections and dependencies is probably one of the reasons I would be in favor of the fork.

caveat 1) I am not a developer, nor do I have any formal training in web development.
caveat 2) This is the first I've heard or read of a Drupal fork.

Clearly in the life of any popular ideology, there is some forking... (look at religion for instance.) I believe it is fair to say that Drupal is just as much an ideology as it is a tool. I would go so far as to say it is more of an ideology than a tool. For users like myself, it has become evident that Drupal is the the adult table at the CMS family gathering. If you need additional development environments such as Zend, Symfony or whatever, to do elegant Drupal, it is immediately talking above my skill level. I love the Drupal philosophy, but I believe an argument can be made that D8 is actually more of a fork than what I am hearing about Backdrop. D8 is a major departure from D7 and has left neophytes like myself who are just barely comprehending the intricacies of D7 behind. If it weren't the "official" Drupal moniker, some would consider it a completely different product.
When any product or service becomes as popular as Drupal has, it has to decide where it's core audience is and it is abundantly clear to me that Drupal is, first and foremost, a developers tool (and a damn fine tool!). If that is where Drupal's heart is, It's only fair to expect that someone is going to take this open source framework and modify it. When you have hundreds to thousands of users who agree on these modification, you will see the birth of a fork. This is a testament to the greatness of the parent product, but also a testament to the fact that no one tool will fit every use.
To be against forking in open source seems counter-cultural to me. If Drupal wants to move on, I will not hold it back, but I also will not be dragged kicking and screaming.

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