I agree with you - if the story had been changed, we could have had much better outcomes and much less of a complete mess. But the whole underlying problem is that the story was being fed by narratives (concerning bullying, concerning targeting, concerning minorities and disadvantaged groups, concerning being heard, concerning being safe) that hadn't been fully challenged. This whole debacle is a major step, I think, in working out what we need to do to challenge our assumptions to the point where we can write better narratives and start participating in stories that are less worrying.