Well I suppose that's that.
For what it's worth I have passing familiarity.
Taken from wikipedia:
> The people who continued with Ethereum Classic advocate for blockchain immutability, and the concept that "code is law" against the pro-fork side (Ethereum) which largely argued for extra-protocol intentionality, decentralized decision-making, and conflict resolution.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethereum_Classic#Code_is_law
Ethereum Classic clearly believes in code is law, that's not the chain that Vitalik works on.