I agree with you. I don't like the idea of having multiple Bitcoin alts as they make no sense to me and I would still prefer having the 'authentic' one. However, there's pretty much nothing we can do to this coming fork so just sit back, hold your coins, and see what happens.
It's free coins after all, and we have nothing much to lose, except getting confused, with the chance of Bitcoin getting heavily devalued. We'll see... hopefully no more forks...
Now, segwitt hard fork was cancelled. There is something surely going on. This price increase and dumps are happening regularly by the name of free coins.