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Situation seems analogous to DAO hack. It was DAO who got stolen, Ethereum was fine, no Ethereum software had to bend over backwards to follow hard fork. Still, it seems post-ETH/ETC-fork ETH is doing fine, and sometimes even considered a safe asset to accept.

Problem is the tether is allready spent. So the exchanges where the tether is spent is paying it out their pockets, no?

Because Tether can set the rules since they run the system? Perhaps they will use this as an excuse to claim everyone is tainted and force another haircut?

Because there are two kinds of crypto exchanges. Ones that have banking and can deal directly with government issued fiat currency and those that don't. If you don't have that banking then your pairs are all in USDT. If the Tether/USDT scheme goes to hell those exchanges w/o banking lose out to a degree so I think it is in all their interest to cooperate.