How exactly is ETH being stagnant ? It's the fastest developing project out there. Only a fool would think otherwise. And, if eth killed itself with a hardfork, then wait for it because 2-3 more hardforks will follow in the future. Which means it will kill itself atleast 2-3 times more. Idiots.
Sorry if that came off the wrong way. ETH is not "stagnant" so to speak, but for a coin that has such a significantly larger market cap to other coins (for example 5x the market cap of DASH), the price is not doing that well recently. Of course, the developers and communities are active, just in the same way as ETC, who are also planning major updates soon. I really don't understand your point about hard forks, ETC branched because it was the "original" chain. It also proved ETH developers had the power to roll back a blockchain, not exactly trustworthy is it?