For the most part, large open source projects are worked on by adults not children.
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This is the right response to the OP's bizarre "question", of course, but ... yeah ... the 'for the most part' qualifier is key here.
we are talking Gnome devs here after all …
Why would they? That's what makes Linux good. Infinite choices.
No rivalry, both projects serve a different crowd with different use cases and preferences. Some people like both, some people like neither, that's the beauty of Linux and FOSS, there's something for everyone.
Why would they? While I sometimes believe that Gnome devs are childish, however I do not think they are angry or like that for making a hard fork and supporting and developing a software they do not care about anymore. If anything, that takes ton of shit against Gnome 3+ away, because people could switch to Cinnamon if they do not like Gnome's new direction. It would have been much worse for Gnome if there was no fallback option.