Monero is just a sad copy, and my bet is that the developers of that coin barely can understand half of the bytecoin code. Bytecoin is undoubtedly a very creative and innovative piece of technology.
And who knows what plans the developers/huge holders have for the future, I mean, in two years they could figure out a less selfish way(than selling it) to make their coins accessible to the public.
Your bet would be incorrect - on what do you base your assertion?
Your last point hits the nail on the head: who knows what the people with 82% of every Bytecoin that will ever exist will do? Whether they purposely kept mum on it for 2 years or completely faked the blockchain data, I think it a stretch to hope for completely altruistic actions in the future.
I have no base, other than that someone was 2 years ahead of someone else who manage to create a fork of their work. The monero guys probably didn't even have a clue that anonymity was the shiet until darkcoin showed them, and after that they wanted to make a quick buck and go down in history books as the 'inventors of the modern "new age" anonymous economy' pfft.