In all honesty, Spike stepping down and you making it explicitly clear about the site's current affiliation, like you just have in this news post, should be beyond more than enough.
Some of the folks who were posting (not all of them of course, but definitely some) were just ginning up drama hoping to make this exact situation occur, simply because they're no longer the center of the romhacking universe. Changing the name now would just give them something to be giddy about in their next-to-emtpy Discord servers. They don't deserve that satisfaction, not for a second.
You already have the perfect name, and you've already calmed down anyone who was <em>legitimately</em> concerned about the cdr issue. That said, I support whatever you guys decide to do in the end regarding the site name and wish everyone a chill evening.