Toward a "modern" Emacs

> Otherwise it would just be a lost cause it would be better to either fork or look for alternatives and not just for tooling reasons.

Well, yes -- the developers doing the actual work are the ones who ultimately decide what direction a project takes, up to and including forking it if the nominal "owners" are intransigent.

If RMS is truly the only impediment to "progress" in emacs, then its most productive developers will revolt and fork it. It won't even be the first time this has happened to a core GNU package.