While it would have been easier for the Sam & Alexey if I did just that, people needed to know what was going on and what options they had available to them. I've already had multiple people thank me for sending that email because they had no idea that any of this was going on.
Since Sam decided to just ban me (and anyone else that mentions Winter) from every single October community, sending an email was the only way to reach much of the October community. I'm not sure how much the russian community is aware, since you have your own advocates and closer ties to Alexey, but I put in a lot of work growing the October community while I was with the project, and a lot of people using October knew me as the face of the project given Sam & Alexey's lack of communication and active involvement with the project.
Yes, the title is controversial and designed to grab the readers attention, it's marketing; that's its purpose. Obviously we're not planning on running attack ads against October, but lets not pretend that October has handled this perfectly without fault on their side either.