That would have been the wisest decision. What the AK did is complete idiocy. Especially the circus with the discussion on an external resource, with names encrypted, even though half the people immediately knew who they were talking about, and the other half only guessed. That is, even in the discussion of the situation, people were put in unequal conditions.
In general, in this case, the AK created a complete mess. Sorry, but things need to be called by their names.
My opinion is, in that game, those were the rules, and we continue playing.