That was very educational, thanks!

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems that the situation with Parity is partially the fault of the Ethereum's smart contract mechanism: for example, EIP99 mentions that "the Ethereum protocol does not allow the restoration of self-destructed contracts". So the issue is not as clear cut as "the users screwed up, they must pay for their stupidity". It's more of a "Etheureum is still a new system; we're all still figuring out the best ways how to use it, and uncovering bugs and design flaws while doing so". So in my opinion, the Ethereum developers should take some responsibility in this situation. This is a quite different situation from the one when the user "sent it to the wrong address, made a typo or something along those lines".