pilotinstructor,
the one scenario where the chute helps least is also the most critcal in a twin - engine failure immediately after take off. Although there are documented successful deployments from around 500ft, that is probably high enough to take the edge off the transition to asymmetric flight.
And yes, given sufficient altitude, the level headed cirrus pilot will trim for the glide, point towards somewhere landable and then try a re-start, see if they can make a sensible field, and then pull the chute.
I can also understand DAR Pilot s attitude that he considers no field sensible because you cannot tell if it really is sensible from a safe BRS deployment altitude. I do not share it, though - an opinion formed from once landing in a field... but his point is valid, I vividly remember how the number of poles, telegraph lines, overhead railway wires, bushes etc. increases HUGELY when you are coming down...