I'm not shutting down any discussion, I'm simply stating my opinion. You're free to disagree.

I didn't say to fork it. Do you really not appreciate the difference between rebasing a trivial patch forever, and maintaining a wholesale fork forever?

Crowing on saying “it’s not your code, they can do what they want” is an attempt to do that.

Fork, patch, maintaining your private whatever, that’s not the point, and is a digression.