Are Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash two sides of the same coin?
no!
Some folks have accused the two cryptos of being part of the same incestuous family of elites - supporting different narratives for the purpose of a common or single goal.
there are a lot of weird theories out there and mostly they exist to undermine bitcoin and bring it down to their own centralized level.
i do believe that you are wrong about bitcoin and if some day i find out that i was wrong i will sell my bitcoins and move on because i am involved in bitcoin only as long as it has certain attributes and most important one is the decentralization which is why i stay away from certain altcoins such as bitcoin-cash.
The things is BrewMaster.... Bitcoin Cash IS what you are claiming to want. I'm not a bitcoin cash loyalist by any means, but also not a Bitcoin core loyalist either. I really feel like Bitcoin core has gone the route of centralization and is slowly being incorporated by Blockstream. Also, the BTC coin is utterly unusable, which is why I stopped using it. Isn't crypto supposed to be used? At least that's what I thought when I first got into crypto. I bought my first bitcoin to make a transaction on the internet... and started USING it more and more like money. Then about the time of the hard fork for BTC/BCH, the fees and times to transfer/purchase using BTC become to difficult to handle. The fees were out of control.... the time to transfer 1 BTC to another wallet would last over a day sometimes. I decided that it wasn't worth it to use BTC anymore... as many others did.
Now, I use BCH to make transactions. The last transaction I made was yesterday from one wallet to another. You know how long it took? It took less than 5 seconds to complete the transfer. It was unbelievable. I was extremely impressed and have not looked back since. Once you actually USE bitcoin cash, you will VERY VERY quickly see why and how it is superior to BTC.
Now, combining BCH with Openbazaar, themoneybutton, decentralized exchanges, atomic swaps and decentralized internet.... now this is something that WILL completely change the world. It will change society. It will disrupt society. It will eradicate central banking, governments (in their current forms), and the monetary system as a whole. If you do not see this and how this will happen, you need to wake up. I may make a step by step playbook on how this may play out. Lot of paths it can take, but it is undeniable that it will completely change society.
Those who use 'new' system I describe above will not only enable, but will empower everyday people like you and I to simply opt-out of the current system and status quo. Think about that for a moment....
...keep thinking.
If you have come to the same conclusion I have, congratulations. The world is about to change in a very very big and measurable way.