the question still is, if this mess could have been handled better, and it certainly could, do you think this would be taken into consideration to make things in a different way in the future?

Personally I fully agree with pooya87. I am not sure what is the best alternative to this way of driving changes. Actually this is a worrying precedent that anyone can urge things like that again if they are good enough at marketing, at creating the need, despite how good or bad the proposal might be.