In 99% of cases, a DDoS is much less concerning than most other kinds of attacks.
If you cannot get to your stuff, or you stuff is harder to get to, then there has been a form of compromise in your service. Is it sexy like wannacry or technically advanced? No. But like most things IT, most of the time it is not.
The headline allows for both possibilities. See the example I posted in a sibling post: A headline of "terrorists strike railway station" would make most people imagine a bloodbath with dozens dead, while still being accurate if all that happened was that some ecoanarchists set a trash can on fire and forced an evacuation.
Especially since the Blender website being down has very limited effects on users who already have the software, or are getting it from their operating system's distribution channel.