rumor says that if classic succeeds big parts of core developers will switch to eth
Makes sense... Smart developers with any open source project prefer challenging and rewarding work that they can design without an angry mob demanding things against their conscience. It would be a quick and easy transition ... Blockstream could transition as well into a general purpose Crypto companies with talented devs working on multiple projects including eth which many banks and companies are interested in.
There will be some that stay behind of course but perhaps Bitcoin has to go in a different direction than its cryptoanarchist roots. Perhaps the majority of bitcoin users want reversibility/AML/KYC/Blacklists... it is hard to say as their isn't a very good way to accurately poll these numbers.