In fact you are right, in the beginning I was hoping for a stroke of luck, the fact that they don't answer and they don't give news about the project is suspicions. Also on telegram the project arouses many suspicions
You have done well, to fix your wrong belief, to protect yourself, and protect others. By now, I do think that all forks from original coins are shit ones. I don't call or judge all of them are scam coins, but forked coins will all ends with lack of interests from investors. Their price (in case their developers kept working to keep their projects alive) will fall gradually over time. It is true for bitcoin-forks, Ethereum-forks, Monero-forks, and others.
Key reason is if a team have enough capability to build up their potential project from scratch, why do they need to fork from other coins? Fork means something like lack of capability to develop.