The controlled max supply claim to fame is now obliterated. There are more than 21,000,000 tokens.
The whole premise of Bitcoin is being undermined and people are A-Okay with it, fools that they are.
The premise is max 21M tokens
per chain (per coin). This is a new chain, or a new coin if you like. No violation. Value doesn't spread out magically from one chain to the next. When half of BTC holders will have exchanged their BTC for BCH, then it will be a 50/50 split. Until then, you need fresh money to add value to the new chain. I think this is quite intuitive from a macroscopic, detached point of view.