BCH is best described as the Orthodox Church to BTC's Roman Catholic Church.
BTC kept the name and received more followers, but has changed its fundamentals and has been captured by less altruistic global players. BCH has kept the tenants and mission of Bitcoin by having scalable block sizes to provide rapid, low cost transactions so it can actually work as a currency and not just a store of value.
BTC exploded because of institutional investors. However, if the world keeps going to hell and people start actually needed a decentralized crypto currency, then BCH will explode and BTC will crash.
i like decentralized crypto. Your title is fantasy though. If you're looking for somewhere to place your populist hopes right now, i believe it's probably the Quantum Financial System.