. I think people may have voted for those sock accounts for several reason

Yep, as I stated above. Trust me I've debated it from that point of view since this whole thing blew up. That's why the marketing is emphasising the DAO appeal system to re-affirm it's all good.

isn't directly the decision of the larger community.

This I can kind of understand. Under the circumstances, some secrecy was needed given the opponent. That being said, I think the main agreement among everyone is that decisions were made too abruptly without enough nuance. But again in their defense, this was a rush job. They were largely not sleeping more than an hour in days to get this out. So there's that to consider.

I think everyone is sympathetic to the list but I think it'll be fine in the long run if the proposal thing works out as it should