If they had, and really cared about the project's main purpose (mixing any coins without blacklists or whitelists), they could have worked out other solutions, like phasing out the centralized coordinator for something more decentralized just as one possible example.
Exactly this. If Wasabi were actually being targeted by laws and regulations, then the correct course of action is to let all their users know about it, inform all their users how to mitigate it, explain to their users how to swap to a decentralized coordinator, create easy tutorials for people to set up and run their own coordinators, and shut down their centralized coordinator long before they are forced to start cooperating with blockchain analysis. But by doing that, they make less profit, so they instead chose to sell out their users.
And bear in mind this would only be the case if Wasabi were actually being
forced in to doing this. Remember that actually none of this needed to happen at all because Wasabi are doing it
voluntarily so they can make more profit by sacrificing your privacy.
Even now, some people who haven't seen that thread (and the really-new developments in this one) are still pointing to their CoinJoin service in answers unknowing that they have been compromised.
Wasabi should no longer be recommended to anyone in any situation. Any wallet which cooperates with blockchain analysis is bad enough; a self styled "privacy" wallet doing it is unforgivable. If you want to coinjoin, then at present the best solution is JoinMarket.