Well, imitation is the most sincere form of flattery they say. I'm glad to have hitched my ride with ARK though. Would be honest, when I first started out, I was all about the lambo and moon memes. Thankfully, the bear market forced me to reevaluate what I was getting behind and really focused on the fundamentals.
It's a flattery when someone is imitating you by dressing like you, or combs their hair like you... when they're a business trying to copy your work for a financial gain which will be a financial lose for you... it's a shady tactic!
But when the others won't be able to keep up with ARK's speed, they'll be exposed.... hopefully...

It's already been exposed! Just the dumb morons out there have no clue or ignoring the true hoping some miracle pump going to happen again with Lisk
Like I said again and again Lisk is a scam vaporware created by two moron scammers who are not belong in blockchain world but ride on Eth hype. Now simply just wait to copy and kill Ark then claiming the techs as their own with some edit/modified. They already kill Crypti and they think it's just easy killing Ark. I strongly believed they could kill Ark if the Ark community and the team not standing strong. Lisk simply creating noise, hype, fake pump when their copied is done because they have the Bitcoins. This way people and more dumb morons will see it as Lisk techs.
Their next release is a mainnet with vendor field/extra field, dynamic fees, then when Ark have the plug-in/creation then they would just renamed it to sidechain creation. They probably even change the voting system to Ark. The Lisk scam is predictable.