
Before the IFP nonsense the BCH ecosystem had funding for:
A new and improved DAA
Easy token creation using Mint
People building games on BCH / SLP
The fantastic Electron Cash Wallet
Multiple full node implementation teams
Full Nodes as a service with fullstack.cash
Major exchanges starting derivative trading for BCH
Everything happening with the Bitcoin.com wallet
POS systems like BitPay, GoCrypto, and AnyPay rolling out BCH to merchants world wide.
And so much more
Now all we have is a bunch of internal arguing.
The forcing of an IFP by ABC is looking likely to derail the amazing progress BCH has been making.
ABC, please stop.

This is a great writeup.
I want to hone in like a laser on one comment though:
Imagine if BTC had attempted a 5% kickback to the core client.
I have imagined this!
And what I imagine is that if the community was funding bitcoin core with 5% of the block reward, then said community would have been vastly more suspicious of, and resistant to, a for-profit company coming along and hiring up the devs that we were already paying to do work the community wanted done.
Thank you sir