This here is where you will meet a heavy divide. On one hand, you have the founding members who have been here since day one. They believe in the original concept and plan for Bitcoin to remain independent and decentralized, straying away from the modern  model of the financial system. These day one guys/gals make up the original core of the community.
    On the other hand, you have your causal investors who see the use in innovation, as well as the potentially profit this platform can bring a few years down the line. These members want to comply with the already existing laws and regulations, hoping to gain acceptance from the governments in order to navigated the scene legally.
   It really is a power struggle. I'm not 100% sure, but this may have been the cause for the forks. Not everyone was looking to turn profit with the split. Some supported it with the beliefs that hold true to the original idealogy the project was founded upon.
If you look way back then and start to compare the scene to now. Who would have known it would have made it this far?