literally tricked miners and the rest of the space into it with SegWit2X for the hashpower majority. The 2X part never happened because as many suspected SegWit2X was itself a scam,
with the 2x scaling magically being "cancelled" after they got SegShit locked in. BCH is quite literally Bitcoin of 2009-2014, not Blockstream's poorly scaled experimental shitcoin.
It would be interesting to see how Bitcoin would have played out the autumn 2017 with 2MB base blocks, it would likely been similar in price development, but it could potentially
stopped the 50 dollars to buy a coffee meme. Transaction costs / full blocks had been a problem since late 2015 anyways, but not raising it stopped natural growth by force.