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No defensive player has to be camped out under an IFF fly for it to be one. The rule merely says catchable with normal effort. If in the umpires judgement the ball got high enough and one of the infielders had a chance to catch the ball with normal effort, it is an IFF.
Also, IFF is actually the plate umpires call, and, no umpire has the authority to overrule anothers call. If the plate umpire felt his delay in the IFF call put the runners at jeapordy, then yes, the correct thing to do is to call the batter out on the IFF and put the base runners back to their original bases.
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