I'm sure at this point they realize that but are going to "punish" the community (and by extension the core developers) by suspending withdrawals until it's fixed. As "trendy" as it is to blame Gox, there's enough blame to go around to both the developers and Gox. Mistakes on both sides that have cost many people a lot of money.
If that's the case, I'd hope that the core developers would continue working on Bitcoin's problem with scaling, and not escalate the malleability thing much at all. It sucks for the users of gox, but I think that's a lesson many of us have learned through bitcoin-- don't trust your money to a third party willy-nilly-- and particularly not one with a track-record of incompetence (especially one with no clear redeeming qualities). Perhaps a lawsuit and pursuit of any applicable criminal penalties will ease the gox customers's suffering.