Surely they where just doing what they are paid ( rather handsomely) to do??
CDRW, with the multiple problems they had to deal with, what you've said is on a par with saying "Isn't Hussein Bolt just a jogger?" or "Wasn't Edmund Hillary just a glorified rock climber?".
Some readers might be forgiven for thinking you're indulging in that age-old
and hugely ingrained Australian trait of "tall poppy syndrome".
Credit where credit's due - in this particular case, this paricular crew brought the badly degraded aircraft back in one piece where many of their colleagues,
even those in Qantas, quite possibly would not have.