Maybe i have a different personal view on the world and how i would handle things, but i try to look at both sides of the story, and the way i'm look at it:
- K, and admitted to, making a poor decision without fully thinking through that it could affect the switch
- What we don't know is if nvidia had plans to fix it as it was and was waiting for the mariko units before applying the fix. Either way, there's a chance that the mariko units will be fix, but there's a chance it wont be.
- We don't know when or if Mariko units are going to be released or what exactly it'll be. All we know from data mining is that there was a reference to a T214 model code named "Mariko", nothing more than that
- There was no money made off of the bug submission
- Scires, while justifiably angry and feels betrayed, handled the situation in a very childish manor, which makes me lose respect for him as a human being. While even if he is trying to make it so K can't become a martyr, it doesn't justify the end results.
- Currently, there's been an iPatch for launching F-G as it is, so there's also a chance that future -current- models get matched to other methods at factory, albeit this "warmboot" or another exploit, without ever seeing mariko released.
- So while Scires did what he did, there are still a lot of current models that could potentially take use of the exploit (approx. 18mil units i believe?). While it could be a potential future proof exploit for when one current is patched out, which is has with iPatches from factory, there's no telling when it'll be patched out, or if it will.
- All of this drama, while K did submit it, as brought more light to the bug/exploit than if everything was handled silently. All the current publicity with everyone talking that "person X reported Y bug" makes it more likely to be heard by nintendo/nvidia and investigated more thoroughly. If Scires and parties were making such a big deal about it and handled it quietly, less people would know about the bug and would be far less likely to be heard by everyone else.
Take a look at youtube for fucks sake, every time something "big" happens, such as news related to exploits and other things that happen, it gets posted there by SpawnWave and a few other people, making it more publicly known.
Human beings are not perfect, the world is not perfect. While yes, K did not talk with Scires about it before submitting it and thus making that mistake, it doesn't mean that it's okay to shame people and take the route that Scires did. Fighting fire with fire only ends in conflict and subjugation between groups. If it was me personally in Scires shoes, i would have talked with K about how i felt about what they did, and at the end cut communications with them, but i wouldn't publicly shame them for making a human error.