I can completely understand that you'd want the new version of DOTF to be clearly finished and tweaked to its optimal form before re-releasing the original version and basically taking the risk of having the former, in which you poured a considerable amount of effort and time ( it introduces some good ideas and is very aesthetically pleasing, I wouldn't have thought it was possible on Q3A engine tbh ), inevitably lose out to the latter, the map people have played such a long time with. You'd have taken the risk of wasting time and effort for poor reasons, and I'm sure a silent part of the community can understand that logic.
Nobody seems to remember how the old DOTF used to be despised by a large part of the same vocal minority who asked it to be brought back later, but whatever, that's not the subject at hand..
However, taking the whole community hostage because of some individuals who harassed you ( names are easy to figure out, but that was mostly limited to Discord, and inflammatory forum posts probably have gotten deleted ) even though you say it's a cold calculated decision, is irrational and effectively makes those trolls win in the long run - since you lose all credibility and end up annoying people that originally sided with you.
Really, I genuinely sympathize with your situation and I wouldn't want to be in your spot, but this is stupid. I hope you can find the motivation in order to put the final touches on the latest revision and put the old map back in so that this ongoing non-sense can be put to rest once and for all.