> First, he published at least three hit pieces on the agent.

No.

> Second, he actually managed to get the agent shut down.

He asked crabby-rathbun's operator to stop its GitHub activity. This was so GitHub would not delete the account. This was to preserve records of what happened.[1] The operator could have chosen to continue running the agent more responsibly. And what was the proof the operator shut it down?

> the bot actually issued an apology for its behaviour.

This was meaningless. And the human issued not an apology for their behavior.

[1] https://github.com/crabby-rathbun/mjrathbun-website/issues/7...