Well - not only has it survived, it's doing technically and regarding development efforts better than ever.
Market is of course oblivious so probably a reaction to the attacks you describe (like 3 weeks ago).
120 Satoshi/BURST as of this writing. In 3 weeks, when BURST is again at 400+ most people will wonder how this happened.
I really hope you are right!
Meanwhile there are a couple of teams already working on it!! we will see what will happen