You're referring to the genesis of a new network which forks Datacoin for economic reasons.
The same thing has happened a thousand times before where a developer says, "Let's make a new coin but do something different -- this time I'll be the one who gets rich."
Unfortunately the dtc is economic entity by design. And economic reason is important for new users.
But when dtc can die at any moment we must think more about new users, not current holders, not me.
I understand your objection, but there are another problems, that can kill dtc. And sometimes fork can rescue the idea.
Noone wants to pay for previous years holders with 11 mln coins. He does it only if dtc is already popular, but it is not.