It's pretty funny that a big fuck up has subsequently caused the price of STEEM to go up instead of down, but it makes sense... they need to have liquidity for their users
Absolutely correct such tactics only decreases the trust level on these exchanges. The market over-all is incomplete red and one of the factor is this situation. Bitcoin and Ethereum both should have been in green before the halving but an altcoin has remained in green after this issue.