> I would ask an opposite question, why were so many people bothered? When the fork happened, Ethereum was just a baby (and still is). It was barely out of Alpha (Frontier) stage, in very early Beta stage.
Was this fact communicated out to the people who invested $150 million in Ethereum? Attracting a hundred million dollars in investor money, then failing and saying "woops! that was just a test run.", I'm not surprised some people were bothered a bit.
The crux of the matter is that some people were way too confident about the viability of their product, and as a consequence a lot of investor money was lost. One or more programmers somewhere were too impressed with their own skills, without the ability/willingness to see the weaknesses.
I disagree. When the Ethereum protocol changes as a consequence of a weakness in the DAO, they are essentially the same entity. I agree that the point of Ethereum is to be the lowest layer protocol, and thus independent from what runs on top if it (like the DAO), but this clearly isn't the case when the core protocol changes as a result of a bug in an app running on top of it.
Was this fact communicated out to the people who invested $150 million in Ethereum? Attracting a hundred million dollars in investor money, then failing and saying "woops! that was just a test run.", I'm not surprised some people were bothered a bit.
The crux of the matter is that some people were way too confident about the viability of their product, and as a consequence a lot of investor money was lost. One or more programmers somewhere were too impressed with their own skills, without the ability/willingness to see the weaknesses.