Hi sal,
It doesn't matter as long as the tree looks happy.
Do you have a pic of the canopy ? Is the tree happily growing ?
Did the tree react for good or bad ?
If the tree did not have a bad reaction then let it go, and those roots will dry at some point but the roots hidden in the dirt will develop to make the job .
My preference would have been to keep those roots buried though, but sometimes you just don't have the choice.
For a well established tree, this ain't a problem.
Because I try to keep the roots in the dirt - and as roots on fig tree are shallow, some will surface - I mound some dirt around the trunk just to cover the roots ... But that's me and I'm in Zone7 with still one or two hot weeks in summer (temps > 40°C ). If I let those roots out, they would be toasted in Winter or Summer .
And slugs like to hide in between those roots and the trunk ...