I love conspiracy theories! Your ideas appeal to me and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter. 
LOL i am not Jerry Fletcher, so no newsletter, sorry 
But i have seen strange things going on from the most obvious (yet sucessful) scams to some that were extremely well prepared.
It is not only the coins/crypto overall improving, the scammers tend to get better as well.
part of the WC scam COULD have been to hold BC down as much as possible to get more people involved with WC. only they guys around the old (and new, i'd bet a bit money on "them" being the same person) WC "dev" will know....