I also like competition so a bunch of BPs running a clone of EOS is no problem at all. It would be good if they really add or change something in their version of the EOS software so that the alternative choices made can be tested and tried in real life.

What amazes me about EOS is the money they were able to raise (no hard feelings here) It sure makes a good War Chest for future development of dApps and support the development of EOS itself.

There are some very large investors in EOS tokens, it seems. Not necessarily bad but I sometimes have the feeling that the enthusiastic but small EOS token holders do not have a real say in events. But I guess that mimics real life :)