Now now, people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.  What is the marginal return of one CPU hour mining on your favorite fork just a few weeks after it started?   Bitcoin's difficulty hasn't ever grown faster than doubling in a month or so, it's never been a gigantic bonza where someone a few weeks before you was getting 100x more.   It wasn't launched with a difficulty thousands of times below what the surrounding network could support (quite the opposite: the bitcoin network wasn't fast enough to justify the minimum difficulty in the first year).

It's pretty easy to create an fork that while announced is still a huge windfall for the initial people on it. Perhaps less of a windfall is better, but at least— as far as we known with Bytecoin the receivers of the windfall are the people who wrote the software, enabling everyone else (including the fork to use it).

This is part of the reasons for decisions are somewhat unstable. Anyone can create a fork, why is one more righteous than another? Especially when all you a generally similar launch approach which rewards the people in the first _days_ much more than those who came later...  It's not clear how one can fairly launch a scarce asset cryptocoin today now that people know and expect them to be valuable (even moreso than they actually are, often).