Since everyone is calling for a fork so each and every individual is calling for a fork without knowing what it is ,that is what happened here. People are not moving to ETH and Dash because of bitcoin,people are investing in alt coins for a very long time and now these alts had a great push ,regarding the fork the core has to increase the block size to 2 mb to tackle the recent issue and then look for a better alternative at a later time and i do thing that is the best option in order to avoid any split.