At least even though they recognise it, they will recognise it as what it is, an altcoin and nothing else. Someone seceding from the original chain can not be considered as the true Bitcoin. Hopefully we are far from this as Unlimited is not gathering all the support they would like to have.
From the evolutionary point of view, once two species diverge from the common ancestor, common ancestor disappears.
Therefore, both branches will be new, we have to acknowledge this.
I am looking forward to much more economical POW: I am sick and tired buying noisy, breakable, enormous heat producing machines from the chinese monopolists. i hope that something better will come along (GPUs?) or we switch to POS.
