The Ethereum situation was a total clusterfuck
No. It was express of freedom. People which had private keys end up having both coins, so technically speaking. So if we would assume that:
Ethereum market cap before hartfork = ETH market cap + ETC market cap, then no one actually lost anything. People could do whatever they want - they could sell ETH or ETC - they could vote with own stake.
That would actually increase value of my STEEM. New fork will probably have new development team, what means more innovation - and all initial stakeholders would benefit from that.