My very good friend Wing Commander C.J. Sugden (DFC and Bar) once said.
"The system is designed to allow an average pilot having an average day to get his passengers home safely "
Personally, as i said, sending a NVMC single engine out over the Barringtons on a bad night does not measure up, no matter how average the pilot might have been. And in this case, for no reason other than "this is our airspace ".