IMHO right now I think its better to still hold and make an invesment on ethereum rather than ethereum classic. Incoming fork, stable price, support from the community, lot of great token, smart contract thats all my reason I pickup ethereum for now.
For your information, ETC is the original ETH, Smart contracts and essentially everything are the same, ETC didn't reverse transactions after the theft, ETH foundation is a rogue foundation, Now some one is accumulating ETC and when they have enough they will start pumping. Whatever ETH can do ETC can do.
I think that when the price of ETH goes up, the price of ETC will also go up, so holding ETC is also a good choice. I just bought ETC.
You are wrong, ETC could only go up if people start using it for their smart contracts. When that happens $500 would be the 2018 ATH.
You are wrong. ETC doesn't have that huge support like ETH so by default it can't do all of those things. It can run smart contracts that's true, but in todays world standard for smart contracts is being made and it is ETH, not many people will opt and go with ETC. Although it is an original coin but it doesn't have huge support as ETH has. It is not rouge foundation, they can do whatever hell they want if they gain support from the community, they did what most of the people felt right at a time, you can't judge what they did they are still upfront of ETC annd will be, call them rouge but look at what are they doing now.
Every single coin can be pumped from now on when we have many new investors chasing the crypto dream. I so ETC could raise as well, but for that they need to have good marketing and to make contracts, to make some people use them as a platform.