What is Monero a clone of?
Bytecoin
Although they will tell you it is a fork with thousands of commits and enhancements and a 'thriving' development community.
Monero is a clone of Bytecoin, except for the completely different emission schedule, the completely different block time, 1000s of lines of commits, integrated LMDB, etc.
Oh wait, Bytecoin has an Official GUI but Monero does not.
If Monero was a Bytecoin clone, it would also have Bytecoin's Official GUI.
Therefore, Monero is not a clone of Bytecoin.
Whew, that sure was hard to understand!