The fork wasn’t an emotional response to GNOME 3 from the developers or their users, but while their users enjoyed their GNOME 2 desktops developers were finding it harder and harder to maintain. They’d been trying to patch existing packages and keep them up-to-date, but it proved to be a herculean and “tricky” proposition.
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