I think the positive take here is "an unusually swift resolution of a high-profile puzzle". So it sounds like the leak was in fact a positive and that overall

I think the positive take here is "an unusually swift resolution of a high-profile puzzle". So it sounds like the leak was in fact a positive and that overall rewarding people with nobel prizes is detrimental to science. edit: it's OK to make mistakes. If science focused on EXPERIMENTING instead of trying to be the arbiter of truth on how the world is, we'd progress much farther. Maybe there is a reason why it seems physics has been stuck for the past 50+ years... maybe it is a shift in culture, driven social media, the fear of being wrong, of being shamed by the collective, of using the improper labels, etc. that is holding everyone back.