That said, something still feels off to me. If this was all that the biggest attack on bitcoin to date could do, then... well we will see what we will see.
The BCH crew were very stupid to attempt to kill BTC while it's been on a pretty much unbroken months-long bull run, even more so with all the institutional talk swirling around.
The time to have done it would've been last year or 2015 when a powerful enough pump might have tempted enough traders, holders and miners for long enough. Even then it's such a shite proposition it would've failed but the scare would've been far larger.