I think some sort of painful event is necessary for certain types of change. Like the Titanic encouraging safer ship specifications and processes. Contract safe

I think some sort of painful event is necessary for certain types of change. Like the Titanic encouraging safer ship specifications and processes. Contract safety needs to vastly improve before smart contracts can be relied on. Forks should only happen IMO when all sides have merit, when each side is right in their own way. The DAO situation may be justified in that not doing so would have damaged the community too much. Like forcing a kid to forget truly traumatic events but letting them remember broken arms while skateboarding. Once a child grows up though all actions are irreversible and there is no longer a parent figure to ameliorate mistakes. I'm uncertain what "age" to consider ethereum but I'd tentatively consider it a pre-teen skateboarding incident.