I agree with Tim Kaye. ClassicPress has no future if the sole aim is to be a Gutenberg-free version of WordPress. Why use CP when you can use the latest WP with a plugin? Instead, CP has to evolve to become a separate CMS, just as WP did all those years ago. Given its current very limited resources, CP will never be able to keep up with WP and forking 6.x makes no sense to me. I also agree with @ozfiddler that ambitions need to be tempered.

I’ve been watching CP over the 4 years since it was first conceived. For a while, it looked promising and I even set up a couple of CP sites, but this lack of clarity is killing it. Sadly, I’m done with it.