Bloggsie I hear ya, but in this specific case - it being such a short sector - by the time it carked it again they could just as likely be at the half way point anyways.
Second guessing the tea and bickies with certain 'you can't win' chief pilots if they had got it re-lit then turned around and gone back to a non-engineering base, em tasol.
All the above waffle about ETOPS is irrelevant to this particular flight.