Obviously these events are newsworthy.
However my perspective is;
Every engine model has known defects which are addressed by a management plan that makes it extremely unlikely that harm will come to the passenger. Of course since any management plan entails some sort of inspections, and/or maintenance versus time interval there may be some incidents of a far less serious impact to the flight as benign as a single engine IFSD.
The latter are expensive and disruptive and as Qantas suggests an indicator of the need to review the timing of implementing corrective action.
My take is that the process being reported on in the papers is normal to the operation of a fleet and unlikely to play any significance to the greater majority of passengers