Even if the drama doesn't personally affect you, the internal drama can have technical implications, like key developers leaving the project, or forking it and you end up with multiple similar, but incompatible, products. OpenBSD splitting from NetBSD is a an example of that happening.
Fair point, but considering OpenBSD's goal is to be absolutely secure and NetBSD's goal is to "just work" on basically anything you want to run it on reconciling that would be at least as much work as just forking and then each project adopting useful things from the other as needed.
