It is very difficult to judge incidents like the one above with the little information we have. If you have a failure and fix it, then the system is no longer failed. It all depends on the fix as to whether you carry on or not. For instance, if the fix is a five minute work around - then land. If it is complete restoration, without cause for further concern - continue. There are shades of grey inbetween. At first reading the incident above surprised me. With some reflection and thought, the crew may well have done the right thing. The truth is there somewhere, but we have far too little information to be able to judge.
The incident with coming across the Atlantic with 3 engines is another good example. The crew did the right and safe thing, in accordance with company approved SOP's, and many critiscised their descision.
In this world at the moment, there are too many armchair experts claiming they know what is going on and taking people to court all the time. In reality, we are generally a safe, hard working bunch of people and some of the descisions we have to make are very difficult. We do have passengers rights in our minds - and our own - and I know no one who would willingly do something stupid at the behest of the company. In fact quite the opposite, diversions to out of the way places wtill happen, despite the company having no facilities there, as it is simply the best descision at the time.
When we find out more about the Airbus incident, we can have more intelligent discussion.