It did not help here. In fact, it amplified the problem. We knew RC4 to be broken when BEAST was announced. Nevertheless, people enabled it, as a "stopgap", to deal with BEAST. RC4 is arguably less secure than BEAST-affected TLS (BEAST was in practice quite difficult to trigger), and, either way, all those RC4 deployments ended up also needing to be scoured off the Internet!
