We are the first smart fork of Bitcoin. We use the rock solid code base of Bitcoin but we do not simply copy its blockchain (which is bloated). I agree that Bitcoin (and traditional forks such as Bitcoin Gold) are bloated and have gigabytes of blocks to download for hours, which is very inconvenient. But Bitcoin RM is a smart fork and you have about 100MB of blocks to download. Other than code base, we don't share any address format, port numbers, difficulty adjustment algo or mining algo with Bitcoin.
We believe that Bitcoin RM is better suited for the future. But ultimately, people (the community) will decide