in the long run my money is on bsv but currently bch is in a better position. ur making 2 big mistakes and that is thinking creg played 4d chess(more like checkers and lost) and a common mistake of thinking that the best tech automatically wins.
Most of the lawsuits are personal and pretty dumb. like suing mccormack or some twitter troll. the only lawsuit thats about protecting bitcoin is about the use of the whitepaper which would have more weight if he had proven to be satoshi.
hard forking the software might be a centralized effort but you are ignoring that not forking it by core was as much centralized or even more. by doing so core captured the protocol and made themselves relevant forever.