Wetcompass,
His primary responsibility is the safety of the aircraft and passenger. Difficult imo to fault an immediate turn toward MB being closest at that point and track close to the coast. From then on AV would have been further away. You don’t know that he didn’t consider AV and decided EN was safest. You don’t have to agree with it but that doesn’t make it the wrong decision.
interesting channel 9 I think reported he was inverted when they came into contact or just before.