I mean I would too be concerned if such a major event _wouldn't_ make people question their assumptions/beliefs/ideas/visions.

If you have no reaction at all, you probably weren't paying attention.

Eventually though, people _should_ recover and return after having processed the changes. So maybe the professor was still recovering at the time?

It's possible. At that time people were talking about Go as the next frontier (that didn't last long). IMO, the game is the same, and for 99.9999% of folks who ever play it, whether a computer can beat the best human is irrelevant in how fun it is to play.

In that sense running competition is no longer interesting since I can jut ride in the car