alt Hacker News> When you consider the circumstances a fork is the only thing here that makes sense.
No, because a fork and an overlay are not the same thing. Getting your custom frontend has nothing to do with sharing the maintenance burden on all the grit behind it.
If they maintain only an overlay, what is the burden? Or you mean freeloading by pushing the burden of maintenance to openwrt project? They also don't suffer all the grit of pull request begging.