Interesting. The justification for the developer checkpointing the blockchain (twice) so that the majority of mining hashpower hard-forked off onto the wrong chain each time and lost their mined blocks, is that an imaginary person failed to caution against it?
I dunno. Feel free to read the irc logs if you want, I can provide them. I cant speak to the motivations of Milkshake at the time, he went ahead and did it after many others were seeing supposed giant chain reorgs coming in from AWS ips. (course that could just be the AWS ip being well connected on one side and flooding in block updates from its side of the network).
I dont know how to judge what should 'rightfully' be mined by whomever at a certain time. I had at least 2/3rds of my blocks reject or invalidate for quite a number of hours. Symptom of block rate being faster than network diameter by a magnitude at least.
You are probably right that people should not have put trust in the stemmer if he has no actual trusted experience or expertise. But here we are - what do you advocate now, the coin is out and it is what it is (not that different from any other alt scrypt coin). Should it somehow be shutdown forcefully to waste all the hashing of those that have and are involved?