While I agree with everything you said about Tywin, the Northerners couldn't just kill the Boltons like that, because the RW tore the North apart. Even with Tywin dead, plenty of Northern lords were held in Frey/Bolton captivity, and their levies either slaughtered or scattered. Roose still had almost all of his men, alongside Frey men, who had also remained mostly untouched by the war. Even with Tywin not doing anything ( and even if, unknowingly to Roose, plotting to put a Sansa/Tyrion child in WF); if he were alive, Stannis dead, and Dragonstone and Storms End were in the Crown's hands, the idea of openly rebelling against Roose would have been unthinkable.
However, with Tywin and Joffrey dead, a child on the throne (and his legitimacy being called into question), and Stannis alive and well with a large army in the North, the Northern Lords are in a much more opportunistic situation. If it weren't for these factors, the North would be a much more stable, albeit ruined and spiteful, part of the realm.
Also, with winter arriving, I doubt anyone not as desperate as Stannis would even think to besiege the Dreadfort, let alone Winterfell.
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