@irreld: As @knc1 mentioned, I instead chose to bundle htop with a hardcoded trimmed down terminfo DB

. Because I like htop, and also never could figure out how the hell to use top efficiently ^^.
As for the hotfix, what kind of error did the OTA updater fail with?
Last resort is hoping the backup/restore feature is still active and restore the necessary bits to the userstore, as @eschwartz mentioned.