It’s cool, it’s interesting to understand how real material differences between the teams led one to diverge out of necessity. Hexbear literally couldn’t exist without doing so. But yeah, problems now that it really needs help from genuinely interested people in reversing to get back on track. I think it will always be slightly different to a standard lemmy instance but it needs the core to be the same to get in-line with longterm lemmy dev. Various features of Hexbear like the emotes are just objectively brilliant though and I know they won’t part with some of their features. The community has too much fun with them and uses them to great effect in constructing and maintaining site culture.