You may be misremembering; nobody has ever disagreed that you can fork a source code repository. Perhaps you are thinking instead about the concerns regarding "asymmetric" rule incompatibilities?
I am not "misremembering" anything. Some people have claimed for years that Bitcoin development is "decentralized" because anyone can fork the code. I have often pointed out to them that such a process is not decentralization similar to the process of Bitcoin mining. It is probably closer to checks and balances you see in political systems. The response is usually that I am "troll" or that I am somehow attacking the developers by simply describing the system. The result is that the issues and risks associated with development are often not properly evaluated. It is the same sorts of problems you have when a central bank or Fed is controlled by a small group. It is just human nature and Bitcoin is not immune.
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