The reality is that Expanse has stayed par for the course, do you know of any other Ethereum forks/clones that havent switched to an alternate chain (besides ETC obviously) - additionally Expanse is the original fork of ethereum, the first fork. So I would argue that expanse has far more legitimacy than ETC. Also, who are the developers of ETC anyway?
wrong! Shift is. Now everything you say is stupid and biased.
Have shift switched to a different code base? what happened to it? was frozen for quite some time.
expanse is the only ethereum fork (or clone) that is still using ether codebase.. (ahem besides etc but lets not mention that disaster)