Honestly -
all my U2 fan friends were happy to find the album available for free in their account. If U2 has a legacy, it depends on their fans and people who like their music, as far as I'm concerned.
But I guess that it would make for a less exciting article to write a blog about the millions of people who didn't fall into hysteria and simply didn't mind or were just happy to download the record. You wouldn't get as many clicks being rational or not making outrageous claims.
Especially not if you're writing for an online gossip web page with no other sort of content and no established
legacy in the real world. Not that a magazine legacy matters - Rolling Stone magazine verbally destroyed and snubbed most of the biggest classics out there...
My wife - who hates U2 with a passion - was utterly annoyed to see it amongst her purchases. But I don't think U2's legacy is doing any worst for that.