I don't know whether giving away free coins like last time but it's good that people are hoping for that. Any division reduced capitalization and is able to create a market dump. If people would keep their coins we painlessly pass through the fork and the fact that the landfill will not compensate for the lack of free coins.
people haven't been really claiming their coins though. i have been checking some of the big addresses and small ones and i keep seeing their BCH coins untouched. this can have many meanings though. some believe BCH will have better price, some don't care about the trouble of claiming it, some don't even know about it.
in the end creating these new coins doesn't mean everyone will get them really even if they are free.