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Some of the larger dev shops that use wordpress as a core should work together to start a non-profit foundation, then fork it.

This model has proven successful before in other projects faced with similar issues

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If the reason to fork is just Gutenberg, there's an official plugin available (Classic Editor), created and supported by core, that disables Gutenberg and gives you pre-5.0 experience for as long as you'd like to run it. And then you don't lose the infrastructure, updates, security, events, the benefits of the thousands of people who work on making some part of WordPress better every day.

The Joomla fork of Mambo is a good example.

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