His posts were getting 3000+ views and 200+ votes. He brought new people to steemit, and encouraged many of them to purchase steem power.
There was no plausible evidence that he was rancho relaxo upvoting himself. So all the rest is a bunch of people who think they should decide who get what and how much.
People like @haejin grow the platform and make the pie bigger for everyone.
Are we going to attack @davidpackman next for bringing over a youtube audience to steem and posting multiple times a day if his posts start earning "too much" money? If we don't grow the platform then its just going to stay the circlejerk of 10k people and 490k bots that it is right now.
I totally agree with everything you said, and great example.
The answer to your question at the end that you probably hope is hypothetical is that yes, yes we are. We've done it before and we'll do it again.