Here's a pax!
Although I was "in aviation" for many years, I'm exclusively a pax now.
We gripe and groan when our flights are delayed (check my posts!) or baggage lost (my posts again!), but the most important thing is that "when we fly, we arrive in one piece"
Understand that the pilots, being in the front of the aeroplane, are the ones that hit the ground first - "who ever heard of an aircraft hitting a mountain in reverse"
MAYBE there was an operational concern for selecting a particular "diversion", and POSSIBLY it meant that pax he following day were not inconvenienced.
But I'd rather trust those guys in the "first-to-hit-terra-firma seats" than second-guess them - as one who had had to land a 737 ("simulated") in wierdly impossible situations (or "pull the plug" - which you can do in a sim, but NOT in real life)