Bitcoin cash would have had a much more friendly welcome to the cryptospace if they chose to use a different PoW algorithm and possibly a higher value too
Nonsense. If that would have been Bitcoin Cash's direction, it would have been every bit as irrelevant as BitcoinGPU. A backwater crapcoin consigned at best to be someone's pump and dump bitch. The approach Bitcoin Cash took launched it as the third-largest crypto. A golden baby that is likely heir to Satoshi's throne.