They are nice to know but have NOTHING to do with inflight failures and have NO effect on decision making.
Nice to know? Sometimes you have to use some common sense and see the bigger picture. A group of status messages relatively co-located in an a single engine nacelle makes it pretty bloody obvious something is highly unusual and unquantifiable has happened. Something that takes out several components simultaneously is not likely to be trivial and is possibly quite dangerous with unknown damage to annunciated areas of the aircraft.
When you add the audible 'bang' into the picture, the situation seem pretty clearer still!
The decision to continue is what they chose. On the face of it, it I does seem a very strange decision. What they took into consideration is unknown by all of us and one can only assume they made the correct decision at the time and under the circumstances. However, that does not detract from the obvious gravity of the situation.