ETHW was solely created by ethash asic mining farm / asic manufacturer who don't want their "business" taken away from them.
They recently did the same with Decred because Decred changed their distribution model from 60% / 30% / 10% to 10% / 80% / 10%
PoW / PoS / treasury.
The Decred project changed the distribution because they realized that their mining was very centralized due to an asic monopol.
In order for asic farm/manufacturer to continue their blake 256 machines (you could hardly every buy ones) they forked Decred (DCR) to Decred Next (DCRN).
While I truly support decentralized mining (best achieved with gpus) I am absolutely DISGUSTED by the ETHW or eg. DCRN project.
This isn't a new home for miners at all and sadly ETC hasn't realized that "issue".
I wish for a future for gpu miners (way higher decentralization than asics), so please don't fall for the ETHW or similar traps.
Up to now ETC has not solved anything,the difficulty of the network has increased about 80% from the levels of before ETH announcement to PoS but the price hasn't moved upwards like the difficulty did.It looks like very difficult days lie ahead for miners during the winter because of crypto prices being down and the energy crisis that has hit almost all of Europe.No simple solution available for all of us,we are all in wait and see mode,the only thing I don't understand is why haven't GPU prices crashed really big during such phase,most likely they will do in October and after.