I suppose all us Skygods on here wouldnt be too troubled by a dodgy ASI.
Having read too many stories about people who died following an ASI failure I did a circuit with the ASI covered up (and an instructor sitting next to me) so no, now I wouldn't be too troubled by it.
But whether you would be able to fly with no ASI is irrelevant - of course you wouldn't have taken off in the first place, as you might just have spotted air speed zero whilst checking the instruments during take-off.
So this is indeed a non-story.
However it remains absolutely correct to congratulate the engineers for doing the right thing.