If you look at the early days of BCH, people like Roger Ver honestly thought they had the majority of the community behind them, including the majority of the miners (hashrate).
Roger thought the majority of people would split their coins, sell BTC and keep BCH. Instead, the opposite happened, people split their coins to sell BCH and keep BTC.
Today, the price is down 97% priced in BTC. But even more worrisome, the hashrate (security) is down over 99% compared to BTC. BTC is at 299E, while BCH is at 1.62E. They share the same mining algorithm and the same ASICs. Less than 1% of the BTC miners can collude to 51% attack BCH if they wanted to. BCH is literally insecure.
This is why chain forks are always destined to just die. Roger would have been better off making a code fork instead.