I'm not really sure why the proponents of this split don't just put their efforts into improving one of the alternatives which are already available (e.g. rkt). A split would seem to be a bad outcome allround (confusion in the market, divided resources, duplicated features), whereas competing products might bring out the best in each other.
Also it does seem a little odd to me to see people suggesting that Docker needs to be more stable and "boring" (from this article https://medium.com/@bob_48171/an-ode-to-boring-creating-open... referenced in the main link) to fit in with other projects in this space like Kubernetes, when it seems that most/all of these projects including Kubernetes are moving as fast as each other...
Also it does seem a little odd to me to see people suggesting that Docker needs to be more stable and "boring" (from this article https://medium.com/@bob_48171/an-ode-to-boring-creating-open... referenced in the main link) to fit in with other projects in this space like Kubernetes, when it seems that most/all of these projects including Kubernetes are moving as fast as each other...