That is the difference between actually gambling and investing. When you gamble there is a chance that you can win and profit early on, you have that chance because this is gambling and you can very well just put 0.1 bitcoins in to a 999x odd thing and happen to win on your very first chance, that is literally the "odds" that we are talking about, don't get me wrong it is still quite improbable that you would win on your first try on a 999x game, yet its not impossible, it is improbable.
However when you are investing literally the moment you put your money in, some whale could make some profits and you can start your investment at -10% on your first minute. Yet when you look at mathematics, it is clear that gambling over time will lead to losing whereas investment will lead to winning, no matter what happens in the middle, the results will be the same in the end.
I guess this was just an anomaly that basically hurt every investor in the end and we are talking about years of profits gone, however we can't say that it is not out of possibility so we have to just accept it.
Normally if this was due to some bug or glitch on the website that caused some person to end up winning more than they should be winning, however that doesn't seem to be the reason why there is a big fall, whoever wins looks like he actually won fair and square and maybe even not just one person but multiple.
What we can hope now is simple, just pray that people who won all of this money, continues to gamble and later end up losing all of the money they won, that looks like the only short term thing that would help us out, if they don't lose that money back, that means it will take years to make this profit back.