Let me start by saying that yes I did profit off of the ZCL pump that occurred after the fork news broke. I had was in the process of buy up every low cap privacy coin when they announced it, but once I saw who would be involved in the process i immediately knew that I would be dumping as high as I can.
On this team you have Rhett Creighton as founder and lead developer. Most know him from his work on Zclassic but I am more familiar with his buried work. He along with Gary le were behind the dubious Ztoken project. Ztoken was to be a complete knock-off of zcoin on the ethereum network. Now I have no issue with coin forking as long as you add innovation and stay in your lane, but these this ztoken project was leveraging Gary's previous connection with Zcoin and their success to try and make a quick buck. They even copied the color scheme and logo withh no attempt to alter.
One would ask why does is matter if he attempted a fork of a coin in the past that failed. Well its a problem when you partner from that project is already in the works of forking the code of another coin and raising funds to do so. This becomes an issue as now we have a clear pattern of abuse of the system to create massive cash grabs.
I'm happy I profited off of the massive pump, but with the pattern that these two have shown I feel it may be short lived. It won't be long before they abandon these projects and move on to their next fork "project"