5. what "they" were planning all along was to divide the chain in as many splits as possible and to leave weaker and weaker chains. They know ABC can always change the PoW as last
resort, but they will still make another step in the divide and conquer. All the useful hashpower is now sucked into the non threatening CRippled BTC which is working to mine a deadend
with no future prospects chain, for a short-term profit, while the real problem they have, a Bitcoin that scales doesn't get hashpower for distant future value.