It needs to die.
It's the only way devs will ever learn what reversing legit transactions leads to.

And don't give me bullshit about saving the network. They did it to save Mintpal, not the coin.
If they were worried about the network, they could have simply blacklisted the address the stolen coins went into, ie release a new wallet that wouldn't acept any transaction from that address, effectively destroying the 8M coins. Maybe start an additional PoW phase to replace the lost coins.
People were suggesting this in the IRC before the rollback btw.