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Crptocurrency is all about giving economic incentives to do the right thing.

In most fields, fraud/lying/cheating are ethical failures. In cryptocurrency, they are bugs that need to be fixed and giving them moral assignations isn't helpful, IMHO. A cryptocurrency that fails doesn't do so because "bad people ruined it" but only fails because of its own shortcomings.

I agree there is a lot of fraud and greed in the cryptocoin community which makes it risky for people new to it or the naive. For people who have done some reading or hung around for a while it's usually pretty easy to spot most scams. In cases like Monero it was probably a something the developers missed. The important thing to note is that the community fixed that oversight within a month or two.

There is a huge difference between unoptimized code and maliciously slow code. This case definitely falls in the second category.

Bytecoin falls in the scam, yes. But the Monero community fixed this quite fast.