There are two separate aspects of the incident:
1- The attack with false time stamps, from someone, most probably a big mining farm as OC pointed out.
2- The totally spastic reaction of the [dev - pool operators] combination.
It's 8 years of crypto experience, and the same faults repeats.
Pity for the coin, and the people who try to support it.
I don't pity greedy miners at all.