Bitcoin team has some sort of Fork-o-phobia. Bitcoin needs a couple of great changes to be implemented, but they fear to do that because the big bad fork may affect the price.
Ethereum team did the fork too easy, but it's a more complicate story. And now the ETH-ETC war will make bitcoin team phobia even stronger.

The result is a stone age sturdy Bitcoin mammoth, and if something big happens the mammoth may die and an Ethereum which, while it's still young and forks should come easy, it forked so bad so instead of evolving, it started a war between its own supporters.

Conclusion: both cases are extreme and neither is good.