Maybe it's my military background coming in to play, but you make a mistake, you own up to it, you take whatever pushups from however many people you get, and you fix it.

In this case, he's a man we're paying (and SE is paying). I care for his well being as a person, and I respect that bad decisions are made - I've made them before. But coddling him is not the solution (and if he's seriously bothered by random nitwits on forums picking on his decisions, that's another issue entirely). It's his *job* to fix it, and I can't blame people for questioning his/SE's grasp on modern MMO standards when this decision ignores all the expected conveniences from a P2P MMO.