I don't think the two were bad events, only badly implemented. Save some lack of realism in the Harmony event and motives for the characters' actions. Perhaps Adenauer just wants to avenge for Liberty defeating her House, herself being Rheinlandish, but that's somewhat weak. Kind of like intending to slaughter billions of people because their ancestors let one of your sleeper ships burn.
The disparity between the successes of official and unofficial events is interesting, though. Tridente should have even worked, but someone messed up some code, and it was "physically" stopped.
I'm just disappointed by the banning of Yber and Tachyon. The XTF birthday event didn't have much less sense than the Harmony event. Hats off for Skorak's RP, but I think that ooRP stuff contributed more to the event than the RP.