You don't get it. It doesn't matter that there wasn't anything done that wasn't allowed by the code, it's the fact that he threatened the network and that he later commandeered it and completely compromised it. Not allowing him to do that is saying that someone allowed him to use exchanges to power up people's steem to be used to vote his sock puppets as witnesses, or that "the code allowed it", as if such a thing could be coded out somehow..