Could the algorithm have been fixed?

There’s ideas for this! The following reply is from just one of a few plausible proposals (in my opinion) that addresses this subject, as a summary of sentiment/reasoning to repeg and work on current chain (linked below. the proposal itself has more details on hows and whys):

Edits, links to other proposals to repair peg andbecosystem.

Proposal with some similarities with ust as debt and ust bonds:

Here’s another proposal:

Another that includes the previous as well has burning plus governance restructure: