Actually this will help the network long term but it's getting a little tiresome, let's see how the next fork goes and if there are any upcoming news with Casper. The price doesn't seem to be dropping below $10 anytime soon even with no news and regular attacks.
If any coin is to succeed in the long term it needs to be tested for safety and resilience. Trial by fire so to speak. So I'm actually glad that people are performing attacks, it's the only way to find out if the technology stands to survive or not on a larger scale.
Agree with this, human attacks to a certain technology could somehow a good move though in order to test a particular thing if it would survive for long . In the case of ETH i could somehow say that its quite a good coin for me inspite of all issues regarding into it into the past months and years.
It is better for the Etheruem or the bitcoin to be attacked when it is still young. The related loss will be limited.