It's always hard to know how much to generalize from the general HN sentiment, but... For a company that seems to be trying really hard to win back the hearts

It's always hard to know how much to generalize from the general HN sentiment, but... For a company that seems to be trying really hard to win back the hearts of devs, it seems like a no-brainer to have a policy in situations such as this to give $$$ to the dev. Take it out of the marketing budget.