I think it's clear that Duffield at the least messed up really badly. Why at least as much is not acknowledged by AlexGR et al is puzzling.
How do you figure that I'm not acknowledging it when even Evan himself acknowledged it and proposed to fix the problem with an airdrop? The community* voted it down (I voted it down too) for several reasons, settling the issue once and for all. The rehashing of the same issue is from outsiders that have interests in defaming dark and gaining marketplace at its expense. However the act got old by now and investors saw that those who tried to gain the moral high ground against Evan and Darkcoin, simply ripped them off - and just used Darkcoin's issues to pump their selves up in order to conduct their scams and leave, while Evan is still here coding and improving Darkcoin / now DASH - which is ultimately what gives the coin its value.
* If Evan had proceeded unilaterally, we'd hear that Evan screwed everyone over and that he is a scammer for airdropping new coins that diluted coin supply (and by extension fucked investors). Now that he put the issue and final say to the community vote, we hear ..."sockpuppets".
There is nothing that he could do that can please everyone. There are all kind of angles that can be used, maliciously, where one could be termed a scammer for anything he does. That's simply the nature of the beast.