It really would be quite nice if they restarted, allowed partial withdrawals and then had a make-up token that they used to start paying their customers back with over time that could be traded at a discount on the open market.
Bitfinex effectively did similar during their hack and paid it off. Seems like a good enough method to me.
their restart and even come back always mean they are commited in fixing their past mistake, of course that should already be taken into consideration and I doubt they could even restart without the reimbursement and what I mean is in proper way not using some underhanded method.
I'd always welcome a company fixing their past mistake, if they didn't decide to make comeback and restart everything instead, I doubt many of the victims will get their reimbursement.
at the meantime it will also add competition in the market, and ftx as far as I know got many userbase that are quite supportive in the past.