Despite the majority voting against it, apparently they did the right thing and returned that fee anyway:
Who's to say it was the right thing to do? Whenever the average user makes a mistake and over pays their fee, they simply have to wave goodbye to their money. Why should it be different for Paxos?
Depends on your morality (or lack thereof) I guess. To me it's pretty clear. If you know that someone paid you too much in error, and it's practical and possible to refund them - you should.
If you sold a car to your friend and they accidentally wired you $20k instead of $10k, you wouldn't use "other people make mistakes and lose money permanently" as an excuse, you would send it back (I hope).
Would be an ideal world 🌍. The problem is there are so many crooked people it does not happen enough at least in this case it was fixed.
And my small pool I am in did not need to face the issue.