The integrity of the blockchain? It was to save the currency, and you can bet your ass we are going to work harder as a community to spread the coins around, more in personal wallets ect to help prevent from happening to us or anyone else in the future. The whole crypto world should be taking note and preventing this in there own respective coins before they are the target of an attack.
A lot of major currencies have gone through way worse forking issues that this.
It wasn't the currency that needed saving...
It was, if a hacker had 30% of the coin, whats more centralized than that?
Furthermore, we have to assume his intentions are not great correct?
It was the right choice, to directly save the currency, period.
Indirectly saving a mintgox situation and another round of negative news for alts and bitcoin in the media.