Would they lose anything? There is still no indication that any lucky blocks actually happened.
Maybe the random chance that was supposed to work out as averaging to happen every two hours is actually wrong and simply has not yet happened in all this time despite the blockchain having been moving along just fine all this time.
People were definitely mining all along, as blocks kept showing up. None of the nodes were misbehaving, as in trying to distribute an invalid blockchain.
So it kind of looks like somehow the lucky blocks luckily did not happen yet, maybe just by variance aka the grace of God or maybe because the chance of them happening is set way too low to cause them to happen every two hours on average...
-MarkM-