Can you please tell me why you believe this situation was handled "expertly", as you say? If EOS were a bank or a corporate-own exchange, I would agree that this action was handled swiftly and competently.

But, EOS is not a bank. It's supposed to be a decentralized ecosystem. But from the evidence presented here, it appears a small group of 21 stakeholders centrally and privately decided to lock up other people's funds on what is supposed to be a decentralized blockchain. Supposedly stolen funds or not, this centralized decision could never happen on a network such as Bitcoin or many others because those networks are decentralized and no small group of actors have the power to take such as action.

Due to this demonstration of power, we can no longer objectively consider EOS to be a decentralized blockchain.

I would love to hear why anyone refutes what I'm saying.