now it's over a year since the fork and there'll be millions of people who don't have any of it and have no interest in owning it.
there is no one with any credibility involved with BCH. no financial institution has made any mention of BCH whatsoever. it gets virtually no press.
it was a one time shot at usurping bitcoin. it failed. there won't be another. that doesn't mean there won't be big ass pumps in future but its place in the firmament is set. if they let go of their obsession of 'becoming' bitcoin and concentrated on being a great coin they'll get alot further.
Crypto is extremely unpredictable, and the vast majority of active players in the market have learnt to expect the unexpected, and bitmain obviously have the incentive and resources to make bch a global system for digital cash so it's likely they will keep trying for many years if necessary to achieve their goal, and the other side just doesn't have the same financial and mining resources.
Most crypto users just want a version of Bitcoin that scales , is cheap and easy to use, and remains as decentralised and 'unfuckable' by governments as possible, they don't really care about the history, and if the flippening happens everyone will still be using BITCOIN.
IT really comes down to which side has more resources to move enough of the people who don't know or care too much about the deeper history of the scaling war to their side, and that's bch now, and even if it takes many years it's the most likely outcome.
I'm thinking of switching to 60:40 in my portfolio now, and at today's conversion rate that feels like a great deal, but honestly, like I said above, I expect the unexpected, and maybe Bitcoin core has some powerful friends in the wings willing to match bitmain, but I suspect most Bitcoin core holders will switch pretty fast when we approach parity and momentum is clearly on bitmain and bch side.
At parity switching costs nothing, doing it before makes you money , imo bitmain's support for bch means it's not going away, and most crypto users are fickle, and don't care, they just want a Bitcoin that works, and bch does.