How another project that cloned Counterparty is going to out compete Counterparty devs (who have proven to develop quicker than just about anyone) by putting out features and bug fixes faster than the guys who wrote the software in the first place completely escapes me.
You're entitled to your opinion and I'm entitled to mine and I do agree that my opinion is quite absolute, but it's not based out of some sort of denial.
You're entitled to your own opinion but not your own facts.
Fact 1. Clearinghouse is a fork, not a clone. There is a difference. Get it straight.
Fact 2. Viacoin's 24 second blocks are much faster than BTC's 10 minutes ones.
Fact 3. Core dev Peter Todd works with BTC, XCP, and XCH.
Fact 4. Viacoin implements BTC core devs' suggestion that Counterparty get its own blockchain and stop parasitizing theirs.