The thing is, ETC stayed under $1 for a good long while, then rocketed up to $20 and beyond for no apparent reason. Most players had expected it simply to fade and go away, it would seem, but it's still going relatively strong. Who's to say that BCC won't follow a similar path? Indeed, maybe BCC will confound all expectations and become the dominant coin.
In this entire space, who's to say (correctly)? Naysayers will say "nay" and pundits will pund, but in the end, no one knows what to expect at this point.
This is exactly what I'm thinking. Many bitcoiners want to dump BCC and see it fail -- just like ETH holders with ETC. ETH supporters were by and large very sure that people would lose interest in ETC and that it would simply die. On the contrary, it continues to be one of the major altcoins.
So I think this is very possible for BCC too (although the mechanics are different; ETC was the original chain, and BCC is a hard fork). The question is, will people come to see it as a direct competition for Bitcoin (including the name)? Or just an altcoin?