Like mentioned above by achow101, it was guaranteed to happen because that is the nature of hard forks.
What it would benefit the community? Well a modified one is different to the current structure of bitcoin so there will be new implementations. But honestly, the main purpose of majority here is the "free money" that will get from this fork. Well just follow updates at any search result you will see via Google.
But besides the fact that you get 'free money' do you think that 2x will have a future?