If the atmosphere around crypto makes it easy to scam lots of people out of lots of money (which it does), then I think it's absolutely fair to make this story about crypto, if only so that otherwise-naive people who hear the news will think twice before investing in the next big scam.

It's not necessarily that the technology inherently lends itself to scams, but the culture around it absolutely does. A startlingly large number of biggest players in crypto have turned out to be scams, this isn't a one-off thing.