The correct thing to do would have been to abort the launch and try again unless the point was to get a bunch of coins out in a day or two - this will always remain an issue, don't see a good way to fix it. That being said, I've bought a bit of drk as a curiosity but do know some people that simply passed on this coin because of the day 1 stuff.
Except nobody realized what was happening until over a day later. By then, Evan thought he fixed it, but still had no idea what the damage was until a block explorer was made. By then, Evan had people who had invested a lot of time into the coin, he would have lost all the interest from those people, and they wouldn't have come back were he to re-launch.