I bought and played Fornite, the actual game, during it's beta for a long time. The battle royale version of it that people now call Fornite only came out much later.

I've played Fornite. I've played Fornite BR (at release). They were obviously a clone. What is Fornite now is something drastically different.

Anyone who doesn't call Fornite a clone of PUBG obviously only started playing Fornite BR and Fornite BR alone much later.