Updated the OP with Ethereum fiasco hardfork.
Do you really want the same to happen with bitcoin? I hope not. So hardforks are unthinkable!
Hm. How much time ETH tubbies gave them?
Comparing gold with fisher price?
The ETH hardfork was very rushed and the code was not tested well enough.
I would not be surprized if some new bugs will happen and they would have to hardfork again.
It is just a mess, if you break unity once, its impossible to recover after.
However ETH was flawed from the start, so it's hard to take sides there.