The way I see it: in both cases, people with decision-making power made decisions, in keeping with established precedent and aiming for a desired outcome. Also

The way I see it: in both cases, people with decision-making power made decisions, in keeping with established precedent and aiming for a desired outcome. Also in both cases, a minority of those not involved in the decision-making process have raised bad-faith arguments and managed to convince the rest of the world that there is a controversy in how the decisions were made and carried out, and that the decision-making power should never have been delegated in the first place.