Was any lesson actually learned here?

People have been shouting for ages that we needed to kick out Amaury & ABC, because they have been stifling BCH development.

But the community didn’t do anything about it until Amaury’s authoritarian power grab was sooo incredibly egregious and sooo incredibly over-the-top & exaggerated & villainous.

But most bad actors don’t ever get to such exaggerated & hilarious levels of villainy. They perform their bad actions subtly and covertly, without a lot of noise or fanfare.

If the community was unable to take action when the bad behavior was more subtle, was any lesson really learned here? Will we be able to react in the future to such subtle threats?