A lot of forks are created for similar reasons, it's not a fight between the great enlightened and the vile defilers. It's a for-profit (Elastic) wanting more control over their product (ElasticSearch) while also making ElasticSearch open-source under a permissive license that they used to kick-start their growth and another for-profit (Amazon) leveraging the open-source license to offer the product as a service to their customer base.
When they had a disagreement Amazon chose to fork it. You can frame Amazon as "cringe" and "throwing a tantrum" but ultimately this is hardly either of those.
When they had a disagreement Amazon chose to fork it. You can frame Amazon as "cringe" and "throwing a tantrum" but ultimately this is hardly either of those.