Well forking Bytecoin was plain stupid. And at moment that was announced I said it in this thread. Just check first pages.
""Maintenance and future proofing. Monero is WAYYYYYYYY more developed and maintained than Bytecoin. Bytecoin has had 88 commits to its core code since 2014. Monero has had 4795 commits!""
But people still showered this genius with $40 millions.