Why isn't there an option for "They shouldn't have bricked anything, and should have avoided being childish asshats that failed to accept the reality of the inevitable rip-offs"
Honestly, they even if they had just went for bricking the clones, that would have still been incredibly wrong of them to do so, because there's always going to be groups that'll rip-off the first product on the block, and they'll never be able to stop it. All they're doing is effectively destroying the trust their userbase has in them, and keeping people away from their products.