Ok - tell me this - they're still "feuding" to whatever degree, right?
What's changed? In the grand scheme of things - what's changed?
Professionals are still getting paid. Amateurs are still performing. Creators are still creating. People are still bickering on the Magic Cafe.
The only people who even know this "feud" is happening are fairly hard core fans of the people involved. And I bet, even then, most of them don't really care.
Here's the thing - internet magic, and magic on TV, isn't really magic. It's a taste test, a preview. Magic has to be experienced live. Because when you watch magic on a TV, or computer, or phone, or whatever, you literally have a barrier between yourself and what's happening. No matter how good any routine is when seen on TV, it will be better live (Assuming it can be performed live). And as soon as someone who's primary experience of magic is through a screen starts experiencing magic live, they will understand that. The fact that these videos that have coached audiences exist is proof of this - that's the "performer" trying desperately to convey the heightened emotional state through a screen that literally detaches the watcher from experiencing it.
What's my choice for #1?
I don't know. There's been some crazy amazing things in the history of magic. How about when Washington Irving Bishop was possibly killed because they performed an autopsy on him after he went into a cataleptic state? He was known to do this, and even carried a note on his person stating not to perform an autopsy for several days to insure he was truly dead. His wife believed they ignored this information in order to steal his brain and study it.
How about when Jean Eugene Robert Houdin stopped a war with magic tricks?
How about Teller being the only magician in modern memory to win a lawsuit protecting to protect the secret of a magic routine?
How about the time(s) Doc Shiels was able to appear in two locations at once, according to eye witnesses?
How about the temples of Greece and Rome that were created to be giant magic tricks in and of themselves?
How about when Siegfried and Roy's tiger attacked them?
Bob Cassidy's cancer was a shock for much of the community, and his subsequent passing is still being mourned by many.
Eugene Burger's passing was significant as well.
Heck, how about the Indian Rope Trick capturing the world's imagination, despite the fact that it didn't actually happen?