Yeah, this particular mess has been exacerbated by Reddit being a terrible technical discussion forum, and it's tendacy to "hivemind".
Also your history forgot "Bitcoin Unlimited", a fork which had a brief stint of popularity between Bitcoin XT and Bitcoin Classic. IMO it's the worst technical design of the three - it simply fails to enforce the block size limit, which would lead to very high orphan rates if miners started to adopt it. The other two had miner voting systems to avoid this problem.
The best technical discussion tends to happen on IRC, for those who want to ask questions and not deal with Reddit.
Also your history forgot "Bitcoin Unlimited", a fork which had a brief stint of popularity between Bitcoin XT and Bitcoin Classic. IMO it's the worst technical design of the three - it simply fails to enforce the block size limit, which would lead to very high orphan rates if miners started to adopt it. The other two had miner voting systems to avoid this problem.
The best technical discussion tends to happen on IRC, for those who want to ask questions and not deal with Reddit.