The efforts of the Cannon Cult were not in vain.
At least, they proved one thing: that after Stanley caused the collapse of the entire "Terraria" which affected tens of millions of players worldwide, Lincoln not only patched up the game's vulnerabilities, but also added an even stronger safeguard—
He set up "Isolation Zones" between individual worlds.
Presumably out of absolute faith in the technology, all the players' worlds of the same game were tightly connected.
Even if the player didn't connect online and continued to play the game in single-player mode, their world was still connected to the entire game world.
But after Stanley popped the "Terraria" "Balloon" with a needle, it was clear that Lincoln had changed his stance.
From then on, no matter how crazily the players behaved, they could only cause their own world to collapse, instead of spreading to a broader scope.