I find it pretty annoying that we're experiencing yet anther hard fork that will split the chains. The bitcoin gold one is certainly not hostile towards bitcoin (they don't consider themselves bitcoin) but I dislike the fact that they have bitcoin in their name. It just causes a lot of confusion. People I know in real life who aren't into really into crypto asked me what bitcoin cash is and if it is bitcoin as well. I don't have anything against forks like bitcoin gold but I think people who fork the bitcoin chain need to come up with a name that doesn't have 'bitcoin' in it.
Yeah, I agree. I think subverting the bitcoin name is one of the greater risks to mass adoption. I have had similar questions asked, but as long as people are educated, things can still move forward. Anything that has some great potential will face fights/resistance and things of this sort, we just have to push though it and I think the core devs are staying their ground really well - if it weren't for them, we would have probably crashed and burned this thing a good while ago!