As planned ?
The second planned fork was to clear out all the empty accounts used in the attacks.
Not fix something that could have been fixed in the first fork,if it had indeed been anticipated.
#clusterfuck
And that 2nd fork was not even mandatory to do it. they could skip it now they won't becouse another security hole have to be patched.
I wonder how many tricks have that guy in hands.
It doesn't matter really.
HF is like update... Like Apple posts update for iOS. So if they need to make 100 HFs to make blockchain stable and impenetrable, let them do it and move on.
In the end we will have perfect product.
I think hard fork does matter. A lot.
HF is not just another Apple update. You forgot to mention the most important part - community consensus (miners, devs, etc). Today's fork is due to security flaw in the protocol. The previous one was a moldy bailout for some "poor" funded application running on top of the protocol. So if another bailout fork like that will come some (sunny) day - we may see another group of the community forks.