IMO the essential difficulty of malleable software now boils down to “fork maintenance”. Let’s unpack that a bit. If you want to make your own custom tools or fork existing OSS, the cost of that is headed to zero. But… often we don’t want to start from scratch! We want to remix tools others have created. We want someone else to help us maintain stuff. We want to combine our ideas with others’. Now the moment you have multiple parties both updating the software… you hit gnarly problems! In a…