It has been awesome so far,quite a lot of good news surrounding BTC,although there is a debate between BTC and BTU and which is better,I think that as for now the logic choice has been made and BTC is on a good track
Choice between bitcoin and a bugged clone shouldn't be a problem but that doesn't mean that bitcoin dev don't have to improve it.
Anyway the progression this year is quite good and we can see a new records