Given we only talk about the pure protocol level and that I can only answer for myself here -

my conclusion was that a perfect protocol is as tiny as possible and does not contain any magical numbers and does not need other layers on top
for its most attractive and basic function (exchange money for nearly free or fees < 1cent ) it cannot be the core that came after Gavin.

So I fell back to check, what Satoshi really did / plan and I decided that BCH is the better implementation- and btw one big feature from Satoshi was, that real ppl do not matter at all - Satoshi's Bitcoin is anti-fragile to that, so no need at all to check / qualify any individuals.