They may well have had no choice but to fly away from the location where they had the strike - a forced landing at that spot may have been impossible. But as Mike says they do seem to have passed potentially useable forced landing grounds.
That said - None of us were in the seat seeing what they saw and felt. It's all well and good to say that there's a landing spot in a video we've watched several times - it may not have been what they saw or they may have been past it by the time they saw it.
Either way - Glad they got it down in more or less one piece.