You say that like it's a bad thing, but bytecoin is a scam from beginning to end.  A scam wrapped around a nice algorithm.  Monero did the right thing, forked it to eliminate the scamminess, while preserving the nice algorithm.  Since then it has been seeing a lot of development in a very short time.  In fact, bytecoin has been taking more code from monero than monero has taken from bytecoin, since the fork.