WSL, sounds about right to me. Those poor cats all alone and unfed. Sounds like the pilots had no pressing problems but she did. I was in an MD80 one day in moderate chop at 300 ft on a cat 1 approach and everything disconnected and lights were flashing still in the clouds so nudged the controls to the localizer a bit and glide slope and broke out and landed adding a little power. I didn't have a cat so just needed to land a perfectly good MD80 that needed some manual assistance. We didn't even write it up because we never trusted the autoland anyway. It only works when it feels like it, at least in my days.
The press can make up a lot of drama over nothing. I guess we could have gone around but what was the point? Just hand fly the
airplane. That is what you are paid for.