Don't know what to tell you, think of china and the rest of the world ( excluding africa ). Almost everything is copied by the chinese, from handbags to entire towns even, no innovation whatsoever. ETC is china.
So there's no real point to it? Just cheaper
No real point beside speculation. You can xerox copy anything, it doesn't mean you can understand it. Pretty sure ETC devs don't fully understand ethereum, otherwise they wouldn't have chosen to take a crypto currency path instead of a crypto dapp platform path.