Back when XT appeared, I gave it the benefit of the doubt, and even started coding a spamming service so that we could test if Bitcoin was still working with lots of transactions ahead of time. I stopped when I saw other people doing the spamming attack, and it confirmed that, even if people were making lots of noise about it, Bitcoin was working as expected.
Some wallets adapted (Core included), making the next spamming attempts more and more boring, until people stop talking about it, as nobody cared.
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