The difference is that this would be industry-led and new bitcoin can't simply be printed. There's actually some precedent for this in the March 2013 blockchai

The difference is that this would be industry-led and new bitcoin can't simply be printed. There's actually some precedent for this in the March 2013 blockchain fork, when miners on the abandoned fork were reimbursed for lost block rewards from Bitcoin Faucet funds. Also Save Dogemas was a community effort just a few months ago. It's goal was to reimburse Dogecoin users who lost their funds on a hacked/scammed web wallet (although Save Dogemas may have itself been a scam-- I don't know and didn't follow up on it). But if it's 700k+ Bitcoins, no way it's happening.