At least 3 things are surprising here:

- WP moderator's tone in messages about this removal (I would rather apologize for letting such mess happen instead of giving military style orders and closing comments)

- The total absence of suggested alternatives for the 200,000 existing installs (this article provides some of them but do all users that installed this thing 200,000 times read it here? - I would rather have kept the plugin's page live and provide alternatives for them there + alert them about about what happened)

- How come there is no CLASS ACTION SUIT for such cases? (200,000 installs would represent something like 10,000 abused users and that would make a nice lawsuit to serve as example for the next ones that would like to try playing the same game).