Agree with what I've been doing for the last 5 years or not. I'm good with everyone's opinion and can understand both sides of the argument.
But, know that like everything else in CA, these things get tested to death to ensure that they are completely harmless, and functionality isn't impeded, and watch like a hawk every posting to ensure that nothing has gone awry. CA is a passion project.
Last year's tribute to the bat if you chose to continue with the homage didn't affect anything (unless you were unable to do a handstand). This year, even if you didn't "revert" to the author dictated images upon installations the author's images would appear in the docker tab, and in all cases it's a simple one click to restore that's clearly communicated.
My personal opinion regarding this stuff is that it shows that I actually do care about CA, it's security, and this community. I'm not the type of person (probably few are) who could survive long in a coding factory fashioned after a sweatshop. (Pretty sure that no one else in a space invader one interview inadvertently dropped a dick joke that made it through the sensors)
But, everyone did miss the biggest joke of all. While every app had a randomly selected photo (changed every 2 hours), right on the home page (Spotlight section), the "unbalanced" app had a specific picture pinned to it for the duration of the day.
While Tom et al did give a go ahead for this, any and all blame / anger / misgivings should get thrown my way. I am glad however that my original idea / planning for this year I did ultimately decide against. It was going to leverage a coding change which is being put into place for a different legitimate reason, but after looking at how the end result turned out I figured it would completely mess everyone up.
Either way, as far as I'm concerned, debate about yesterday's event should now be over. What's done is done and let's all get back to business.