Are you implying that if the ETC officials ran more 'nodes', that the above described attack could not have happened?
No. I was addressing:
I run a fully-validating non-mining client. Several in fact. However, I am not under the widespread delusion that this provides the system as a whole any benefit.
Which makes me wonder why you bother running the clients.
While they don't do the system as a whole any good, they do
me as a transactor some good. Without running such a fully-validating client, I would be unable to transact without a middleman.