Yeah, that's fair. Trying to hijack the name is shady, and not to defend them, but I do believe that they believe they're being more true to the original vision of Satoshi than the current developers, so I think they believe themselves to be the true Bitcoin. It's like when religious sects split off and each side labels the other side as heretics for not being true believers. Looks like the same mentality here by both sides.
I hear you and understand what you say but a key thing was stated by Zhuoer in an interview that he and his pools were
only mining Bitcoin and then exchanging them for Bitcoin Cash. There is hypocrisy in that process. It is all too shady as far as the domain goes and well, that is life.
It's not unfair to view it as hypocrisy, but alternatively, you get more bang for the buck right now mining Bitcoin than Bitcoin Cash. It is more profitable in USD equivalent to mine BTC than it is BCH, so it is equally likely (if not more) that they're just seeking to maximize their resources. I think it would be hypocritical if they were mining Bitcoin and
not converting to BCH, as that would imply they don't really believe in the future of their own version of the coin. The fact that they are converting doesn't imply hypocrisy to me personally, it just looks like they're trying to take advantage of low exchange rates and amass as much BCH as they can because they believe in it. I suspect that if it were more profitable to mine BCH in a USD/hash comparison, they would be mining that instead.
So after the fork happened and Bitcoin Cash was created, as of today on CoinMarketCap it shows:
Bitcoin
capital $118,038,167,261
price $6,962.42
circulating 16,953,612
volume last 24 hrs $4,671,340,000
Bitcoin Cash
capital $11,306,077,844
price $663.06
circulating 17,051,288
volume last 24 hrs $286,801,000
OK... now compare that with the stats as of now:
Bitcoincapital $161,122,090,712
price $9,467.05
circulating 17,019,250
volume last 24 hrs $7,023,800,000
Bitcoin Cashcapital $29,330,315,237
price $1,713.83
circulating 17,113,900
volume last 24 hrs $1,819,640,000
The BTC market cap went up by 36.5% in one month, while that of BCH went up by 160% during the same duration.
This is easily explained by a high degree of variance that exists in these markets. You didn't point out all the times BCH goes down more than BTC, which is constantly, so this one particular data point isn't meaningful because they tend to revert to the mean rather quickly.