Yeah you are right, not sure what good has forking done to bitcoin. In fact it did the opposite and made it look bad.
You did the opposite? What do you mean with that?
Bitcoin is such a nice project, and it will always be, i am sure that a lot of us have changed a lot since we introduced ourselves in here.
And yes, all those forks make it look bitcoin like a super rich fast scheme for the founders only, they create a forked coin from nothing, just spending a few bucks on a coder, and whuala! now they have a lot of money because of that.