to be fair, part of the reason why there's so much drama with bitcoin is because it's biggest by market cap. when there's more at stake, people show their true intentions.
Very true, people often point out that Litecoin will suffer the same growing pains as Bitcoin as volume increases, and there is definitely an element of true to this. I trusted Gavin to help guide Bitcoin and since his departure I have not felt reassured of anyones true intentions in the Bitcoin community. With Litecoin, Charlie wanted it to be as fair as possible from the beginning. He refused to pre-mine the coin and repeatedly encourage critical thinking of coins in general and even advocated for Bitcoin above the coin he created!!! With the recent events in the Bitcoin community you can understand why people have flocked to Litecoin. His leadership is direct and highly visible.
Bitcoin was having drama like this well before it reached the market cap that Ethereum has now. So far Ethereum is remarkably drama-free. There was the DAO controversy last year, but the chain split seems to have resolved that nicely.