Because this wasn't like BCash -- it was a hostile fork, with no replay protection, such that the two forks could not reasonably co-exist without first a major

Because this wasn't like BCash -- it was a hostile fork, with no replay protection, such that the two forks could not reasonably co-exist without first a major cataclysm. The best case result (according to most) would be the preservation of value on whichever chain survived. Anyone investing in the last couple of days looking for a dividend would have been a total imbecile.