The reason why this whole mess has started is because journalists didn't care about the consequences of their actions, they wanted to write a story that would generate clicks, so they have brought CSW to the spotlight and they keep doing it to this day. If news sites stopped making articles about this scammer, he'd be forgotten in a year.
in contrast, it would be virtually impossible to impersonate vitalik buterin. the trade-off for ethereum is they forever have a "benevolent dictator". that trade-off isn't worth it IMO.
Why such binary choice? I'm sure Satoshi could have gone public without becoming a "benevolent dictator", he could even distance himself from Bitcoin development.