Wait...when did B-Cash (BCH) become Bitcoin (BTC)? Is there any exchange that lists Bitcoin as BCH? Anyone outside of the Ver camp that refers to BCH as “Bitcoin” and refers to BTC as “not Bitcoin?”
I mean...you may want BCH to be THE Bitcoin, but just calling B-Cash “Bitcoin” doesn’t make it so. Even if you truly believe that your BCH fork is the real Bitcoin, it still suffers from the reality of perception...and the perception in crypto is that BTC is Bitcoin and BCH is just another fork from the main chain.
Instead of continually trying to fight for the name (or attempting to leech off of it to promote your fork and/or confuse people), why not brand it as your own superior chain and token? Surely, if it’s as good as you believe it is, convincing others of that and then rebranding shouldn’t be an issue...especially for a big money man like you. Right?
It actually is branded as Bitcoin Cash and philosphically as well as technically "the Bitcoin, to in the future defacto be considered Bitcoin", not merely as Bitcoin qua the only chain, the SL "Core" chain in particular or the coin that uses ticker BTC.
But I'll agree with you that some people in the community push too hard. That they do themselves a disservice by stooping to the level of trolls on the opposite side. A lot of people are jaded and that only feeds into an already confused and toxic environment.
While I completely agree Bitcoin Cash should just be branded and portrayed that way, it technically is still Bitcoin(and so are all other forks).
If we wanted to be completely accurate, the Bitcoin(BTC) that we know today is not the Bitcoin from years ago, probably the closest thing that can call itself "Bitcoin" based on the whitepaper would be Bitcoin Classic. And also, to your point, many coins make changes as they go along so basing it off of a whitepaper from a long time ago doesn't mean it isn't Bitcoin.
Bitcoin (BTC) is not Bitcoin in the sense of being "Peer to Peer electronic cash system"(the title of the white paper) https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
Bitcoin now is being portrayed as a settlement network by a lot of the people who are developing it and part of team BTC, which is fine if that is the direction they are going to take with it. Whoever controls the github and has miner support gets to say what Bitcoin is. If the devs and miners all agreed tomorrow to change Bitcoin from PoW to PoS they could, they could hardfork off Satoshis coins if they wanted to(also something some of those devs have proposed). Bitcoin is their project so I think they do rightfully own it in that regard.
I would prefer people just stick to calling Bitcoin Cash Bitcoin Cash. In a weird way, we are getting into this world of "preferred pronouns" for cryptocurrency world and both sides get offended at what the other says. I personally see it as a waste of time to call it BCash(which is an actual implementation of Bitcoin + ZCash), and I also find it a waste of time to call Bitcoin Cash "Bitcoin".
But, that's just make .02