Pidgin to fork development

It looks as if Pidgin will fork the pidgin code base. Why? Well because of the input box on the chat windows..

This latest release of Pidgin sees an input text box on chat windows (the place you type when talking to someone) that used to be height adjustable, now auto adjust! The community was outraged by this!

When the developers were asked to return it to an adjustable text box, they simply said no.. So a few members of the pidgin community have decided to fork the code base to allow for the adjustable text field..

This makes me ask the question, if the pidgin community wanted an adjustable text field why won't the pidgin devs just implement it? Is it pride holding them back? Or an underlying technical issue? Either way, it begs the question to be answered, why do we build software for? Is it for ourselves or for the community???

I know the answer, but does everyone else???