Forking projects to put a different coat of paint on them is just silly. It's still the same project, it's just got your sticker on it now. You still dependent on upstream decisions. If things change too much for your liking, you have a growing patch management issue on your hands, and that's not fun. But hey, you're free to do it, that's the beauty of FOSS.

Reminds me of the Linux distros that just fork Debian, stick a new theme and logo, create a website and voilá. Nah, mate, it's still Debian.