A few comments on your article:
- Conflating all crypto-currencies to be "Bitcoin", and then from there conclude that it is logical to call Bitcoin (BTC) for Bitcoin Core, is flawed. Most crypto-currencies are forks of the original Bitcoin Core source code, but we don't call them "Bitcoin" for that reason. They are all crypto-currencies, they are not all Bitcoin. It will simply confuse the average individual, not good for general adoption of Bitcoin (and crypto).
What follows from that, is that "Bitcoin Core" is the client. There are other clients that implements the same P2P network protocol and consensus algorithm. Bitcoin (BTC) is Bitcoin, there shouldn't be any confusion or doubt about that, this article does not really reduce the confusion for the average individual.
We don't call Bitcoin Cash, for "Bitcoin ABC", now do we? Why would we then call Bitcoin, for "Bitcoin Core"? We don't call the World Wide Web, for FireFox.
Bitcoin dot com starts by informing visitors that Bitcoin ("Core") is in trouble. It is not a site that promotes Bitcoin, for all the good thing it has done, and is doing every day. Instead the website attempts to tell visitors, that there is something wrong with Bitcoin, and that Bitcoin Cash is the "upgraded" Bitcoin, "the real bitcoin". It is not the real Bitcoin, by any stretch. It is a fork, I doubt any developer working on the various Bitcoin Cash clients would say otherwise.
"Arguably, the original Bitcoin program no longer exists, at least as Satoshi created it. "
Satoshi eventually "disappeared", but he was not alone on working on Bitcoin after the initial availability of the source code. A lot of changes, modifications and improvements was made. I'm currently wearing a t-shirt with the names of all the original developers, and it includes more than Satoshi. You can still download an older version of Bitcoin, and it will sync with the network, and you can perform transactions with it. Those transactions will happen on the Bitcoin-network, not the Bitcoin Cash-network.
"the BTC people are the most petty. I've never had a BCH or DASH or Monero fanatic pull their support for my show because we accept one or the other currencies."
You have to realize that this is not a comparison that holds weight.
There are almost no transactions a minute on Bitcoin Cash network, and virtually nothing compare to the Bitcoin network.
"Most libertarians believe in competition, but it appears these BTC supporters really hate the competition from BCH. "
I doubt many people have issues with competition, the issue is how the narrative has been pushed, attempting to promote Bitcoin Cash as Bitcoin. There are people, even on the official source code repos for Bitcoin ABC project, that comments that they want the developers to eventually change from BCH to BTC, when BCH grows bigger. That is dangerous and ridiculous ideas, and not a single exchange would that that. It would amount to outright fraud. And that is just one, of thousands of examples that exists on the tubes today. That is what most people have issues with, not competition.
I believe there are room for everyone, but I really think that Bitcoin Cash and it's supporters have hurt the crypto-community and crypto-market more than any other event and alternative coin out there. It has confused, it has distracted a lot of energy and resources, away from the real fight against fiat, and initiated an ridiculous FUD-war.
This article is part of this, spreading false facts as real:
"BCH is just another bitcoin-based crypto. This one happens to have been the first to fork, and it's worth more than all of the other Bitcoin forks, so it's noteworthy."
Bitcoin Cash is not the first Bitcoin fork. First there are plenty of alternative coins, which have forked the Bitcoin Core source code and created their own genesis block, for example Litecoin.
If we are talking about fork of the blockchain itself, the first was Bitcoin XT, then Bitcoin Unlimited, then Bitcoin Classic, and THEN came Bitcoin Cash. So BCH was not first in any regard, not even with larger blocks (which Bitcoin XT did with 8MB blocks).
To close it off, I just want to give a few example on the narrative that has been pushed by Bitcoin Cash supporters:
Only miners matters, full nodes that don't mine, has no role or effect on the network. This is FALSE.
FUD regarding Segwit, most people talking about Segwit have no clue what it is and believe it removes signatures from transactions. Segwit is still as secure as non-segwit ever was.
"Bitcoin Core/Bitcoin Segwit" is the fork, not Bitcoin Cash. This is clearly and evidently false, as the network older clients support, is the software release before august 1st 2017.
There has been a lot more spreading around, and all of this distracts the community from the real issues.