The reason why it wasn't relaunched was because a lot of users on this forum had already begun mining and buying/selling coins. I remember seeing the first OTC-thread where Moneros were being sold and bought for pennies. The worst thing that happened to Monero was an unoptimized miner, which has nothing to do with the coin's core code and has nothing to do with Monero's current dev team. Unlike Dash, where it's entire core code was sliced and diced to the enormous benefit of it's scam developer Evan Duffield and co.

If you want to rate the fishiness that happened in each coin.

Monero's "fishiness" level in a court of law would be maybe, at most, a 2/10 as everything(Only one thing and that's the unoptimized miner) is to blame on the Thankful-for-Today character. Dash's "fishiness" level would be a 10/10 and grounds for immediate investigation.