I think the positive take here is "an unusually swift resolution of a high-profile puzzle".
So it sounds like the leak was in fact a positive and that overall rewarding people with nobel prizes is detrimental to science.
edit: it's OK to make mistakes. If science focused on EXPERIMENTING instead of trying to be the arbiter of truth on how the world is, we'd progress much farther. Maybe there is a reason why it seems physics has been stuck for the past 50+ years... maybe it is a shift in culture, driven social media, the fear of being wrong, of being shamed by the collective, of using the improper labels, etc. that is holding everyone back.
So it sounds like the leak was in fact a positive and that overall rewarding people with nobel prizes is detrimental to science.
edit: it's OK to make mistakes. If science focused on EXPERIMENTING instead of trying to be the arbiter of truth on how the world is, we'd progress much farther. Maybe there is a reason why it seems physics has been stuck for the past 50+ years... maybe it is a shift in culture, driven social media, the fear of being wrong, of being shamed by the collective, of using the improper labels, etc. that is holding everyone back.