Maybe, but they were pretty damn quick to reject him. Further, and this is the infuriating part to me... even after he's gone the comments like in this comic make one realize that they don't even realize what they've lost.
That's the disturbing thing... how they're willing to forget all the good he's done based on one distorted event, and even after time to reflect they don't appreciate just what a loss it was. And I can't help but think that if they can't appreciate what they had even after they lose it, are they even salvageable?