Unless I am reading your post wrongly - it looks to me like Ryanair did their bit fine (great low fair giving people the opportunity to get about affordably) and that the problem lies with the handling agents.
I also think Mr O'Leary is doing his best to sort it out by doing his best to let us take on our 25kgs of hand baggage again.
Nothin worse than having to wait for bags - I was about an hour on Friday night at Edinburgh - but not really the airlines issue.