It's a little bit sad, because I wish the game theory didn't work this way, and because I'm someone who tends to stay attached to the same project, but I almost wish smart people like her and anyone else working on ElementaryOS would move on to projects that have a better chance of gaining a foothold in the marketplace. At this point, I think EOS is probably NGMI
Honestly, I think this is the sort of project that where if you manage to get 0.5% of the market share you're still going to make enough money to get by. The market is massive. A partnership with the right orginsation to make this their operating system and it would be able to survive and allow the developers to carry on doing what they want to do.
Did Elementary survive the fall out between its two cofounders? I haven't really followed.