Of course one can say in retrospect that this was an unnecessary act. But we weren't in the aircraft, don't know how well it is insured and whether the owner of the Cirrus may have enough in his bank account to buy 100 more aircraft. Maybe the pilot panicked, maybe he has no rough field experience - we can't know that. All we know is that he walked away from the aircraft, something one can not say about almost 100 other cirrus pilots who hadn't had the same luck.