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There are still plenty of D6 modules that haven't been ported to Drupal 7. Part of my job as a Drupal developer is to port modules, as needed, to the version of Drupal my clients are using. Right now, I don't yet have the skills necessary to port modules from Drupal 7 to Drupal 8 (and I've been using Drupal 8 longer than more than 99% of the Drupal community). There will be a bottleneck whether Backdrop exists or not.

We don't yet know the end-point for Backdrop, though we have some good ideas about where we'd like it to go: not very far from D7.  Here is the possible range of outcomes:

Best case scenario: the changes necessary to run a Drupal 7 module on Backdrop would be simple enough that they can be worked into an existing Drupal 7 module with if statements in the current D7 code.  
Worse case scenario: the scope changes between Drupal 7 and Backdrop will be comparable to the scope changes between Drupal 6 and Drupal 7.

I disagree with your opinion that any of these possible outcomes is "only going to hurt" Drupal. If the only way forward is through a bottleneck, that also hurts the whole Drupal ecosystem for a while: end users don't get their features, site builders don't get their building blocks, contrib developers become even more overworked, and web shops pour in countless hours to get up the new learning curve.

There's a portion of projects we work on that don't require Drupal 8. If that part of our ecosystem can continue to grow and bring in new business to fund the work we do on Drupal 8, that will benefit the projects that will require (or prefer) Drupal 8 over Backdrop.

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