This Segwit2x is a scammy fork of a scammy fork, and nothing good will come from it. People who will buy and hold it will lose their money, people who will not claim this shitcoin properly (like importing current private keys instead of moving Bitcoins to a new wallet first) are likely to lose their coins to a malicious wallet, like it always happens with Bitcoin forks. Newbies should stay away from forks because the chances of getting burned outweigh any potential profits, because the real value of all those forks is very close to zero.
Let's not be paranoid. I have used one of my addresses in electron cash before moving the money out during the BCH fork and haven't lost anything. The wallet appeared to be fine and is still fine, I believe. I agree that claiming forked coins is becoming more and more risky though, but you can always let other users test the waters.
I've seen a lot of people who support 2x simply because there's not many solutions at the moment. I'm still waiting for lightning to come up, but it's going to take months and i'm not a supporter of abandoning BTC for BCH.
There's no such thing as "paranoid" in Bitcoin, it is always better to be safe than sorry. A lot of people are losing huge amounts of money because of malware, and with the forks it's even more risky because not much people know what is the reference client for those chains. So, rule number one of dealing with forks is to always
move your BTC to a new wallet before importing your private keys. This will protect your BTC, but you still have to be very careful, because malicious clients might steal all your forked coins like Bcash, Bgold and so on, which can also be quite frustrating. And when you have so many forks, some of them might be just malware from the start, or their github repositories might get hacked like it happened with Bgold.
