Not necessarily. I prefer trying to improve what we have verses making a new thing every time we have a relatively minor disagreement, even if that disagreement is with our past self.
EDIT: I'd like to add that clearly he is able to spend his time as he wishes.
I generally agree. Although, some of these are pretty "opinionated" breaking changes (promises all the way down, package manager changes). It would be hard to convince the whole node community that these upgrades are worth the risk forking in a python 2/3-esque way.
Forcing TS is a change node could adopt in the next major version if everybody agreed, but the node community might be too big and diverse at this point, to make such an opinionated switch.
EDIT: I'd like to add that clearly he is able to spend his time as he wishes.