So the rule was you had to first keep yourself from getting touched before you could try and score a point of your own.

That doesn't sound like it leads logically to "you get the point if you were the aggressor, even if you also get touched" but sports rules are often many layers of arcane nonsense with too much deference given to the past. (I'd treat it more like a serve fault in tennis. Reckless attack is a do-over, twice in a row is a point for the other person.)