Code is not law and never has been, consensus is law.
The Ethereum community (technically, node operators) as a majority decided to rollback the blockchain and it would have been impossible to do so otherwise. The community was tiny barely three months after launch and this would be much harder to orchestrate today.
The Ethereum community (technically, node operators) as a majority decided to rollback the blockchain and it would have been impossible to do so otherwise. The community was tiny barely three months after launch and this would be much harder to orchestrate today.