it has been soft-forked numerous times; yes, the maintainers of the forks could probably use more $upport and visibility to their projects. it probably still makes sense to be downstream from Mozilla to remove the anti-features while building on the solid foundation they have built in the good ol' days, and that they will likely maintain in the foreseeable future, in order to funnel users into their dis-services. if it ever becomes too cumbersome to remove the anti-features, then it will be time for a hard fork.