Apparently, the hard fork needed to happen. The resulting clusterfuck has revealed the true attitude toward the project the developers have, that is, this is more about profit than ideology. I'm not naive; I have bills and shit too and I understand how the world works. But these conflicts of interest are damn near criminal at this point, I hope people understand that the criticisms that some of us had with ETH didn't go away with the fork.
Fool me three.times, what's the saying for that?
Yes the fork is actually one of the best things that has happened for the original chain. Profiteer Vitalik and the corrupt Ethereum foundation had to go. It was nice of them to voluntarily step out and continue on with their own platform.