Not really. They're playing someone who didn't show up and theoretically receive a bye to the next match.
Besides, I'm not willing to change the way the final round is played for three reasons:
- Starting over means we have to wait for the 90 players left in the tournament, which could take another three weeks.
- Starting over also means we may lose other players, those that don't bother joining again. And going by your logic, we'd have to start over AGAIN following that. And,
- It totally messes up the rankings below 128.
So it will come down to whether or not you had the luck of the draw or not.