It's pretty obvious in hindsight. And if I'm right about this, then we should start to see alts slowly and almost imperceptibly bleed back into the Bitcoin market over time. We may even see a few "controlled demolitions" of some alts here and there, and their markets likely won't recover to previous ATHs after that.
I agree with this. As bitcoin fees drop lower and lower all I can think of is that this is bad news for the likes of Litecoin. Many people moved to litecoin for those cheap, fast transactions I mentioned. Litecoin is even used for pairing on some exchanges for this reason. I'm not forcasting the end of litecoin but, I agree that it may be the end for some alts.
I think that the BCash gang was actually just a group of useful idiot patsies in all of this. I'm not 100% sure they were spamming the network (it could have been the work of Whales/Insiders that they were working with or just knew), but they believed at the time that they were benefiting from it. Now, not so much.
In reality all alts were benefiting from this spamming. All we've heard for months now is that the high fees and slow transaction time is why bitcoin will not be widely adopted and used. It seems as if many have been chasing the "new bitcoin" based on this false belief. It would be easy to believe that the bcash gang are just pawns in this larger scale game you've outlined. They don't seem like masterminds... I mean... have you heard them talk? After all, the heavy hand is always hidden behind a false face.