But everyone involved is part of something that's currently worth $4 million USD .. I'm failing to see how anything is ruined here?

$4 Million USD is not a small sum of money..

If anything he brought the attention of a larger audience of people to this, who will in turn ultimately do the same. Whether or not the marketcap goes up or down really has no bearing on that, as it's still something with value that people can use. How can that offend you?

Monero is still fulfilling its expectations for me, I can use this currency to buy whatever I'd like; however, not many (or any at all) people are selling anything for this currency. Are you blaming statdude for not being able to buy things with this currency? I would think that with a larger audience, there would be more of a basis to form a real market for this .. rather than trading it only for other currencies. If anything I would think statdude has accelerated the proliferation of this currency quite nicely, and maybe you should instead turn your attention to blaming smaller marketplaces for not yet accepting this currency?

Also, it would be severely erroneous to place all of this 'blame' on one person alone. The truth about the mining profitability was always there, so it would be quite wrong and contrary to the goals of this coin to want to cover that up by not talking about it. People have, for quite a while now, talked about how profitable this is. Why are you singling out the most recent person to make a thread about it?