Time and time again, people have said that some event was going to destroy cryptocurrencies. This has gone on long enough that 99bitcoins.com even has a list of all the times the media has said Bitcoin would die. As is pretty obvious to us all, that has never been more incorrect as it is now.
Every day it seems, Bitcoin and other cryptos are pushing their all time highs and proving their longevity to the world. Even this news, which could be spun as an inability to improve upon the current tech, has shown how Bitcoin survives despite all the concern about it. If mainstream media looked into the matter(which they rarely do) they would see that the "failure" of Bitcoin2x was not a failure in crypto but rather a triumph in how much concensus matters in this world.
It did not fail because of a technological fault, but rather due to a realization by the core proponents that it would split the community and risked having minimal adoption. This shows immediate reaction to the community and seeing outside of one's own ambition.
This is just the start of the revolution!
TLDR: Bitcoin 2x stopping because devs cared about the community is a success not a failure