I think this statement isn't accurate, is it?
Amaury is lead dev for Bitcoin ABC.
Bitcoin ABC is Bitcoin Cash, ABC controls the project and decides what is happening
Amaury was supposedly paid for 1 years work by bitmain to fork it and get it off the ground
Bitcoin Cash was a contingency plan bitmain is getting their main business taken from under them there was talks of a PoW change and bitmain needed something they could control so their miners couldn't be made obsolete.
The same is happening now with monero fluffy pony tweaked the algorithm to brick bitmains cryptonight miners so they forked off monero classic that supports bitmain (is paid for by) so they can continue to have a coin that is in their control and they can guarantee it's future.
Well, I thought Bitcoin ABC is just a client for Bitcoin Cash along with Unlimited, XT, and few smaller ones, no...?
ABC calls the shots though the others just have to play along
ABC is kind of like the official client and the one every one uses unlimited and xt don't really get a say
The fixed HF schedule is set by ABC and it's ABC that dictates what gets added therefore ABC is BCH
Unlike core and the other Bitcoin clients where the community gets to decide ABC just does what it's paid to do
There is a huge amount of people that supports cash but not the enabling of new opcodes and I expect another split to happen soon 0.17 has been out for maybe close to a week so far and it's showing so far nobody has "upgraded" yet