Didn't that go off into the weeds at 60+kts? IMHO that's a big call to say that the abort decision saved the lives of all the pax as this implies that they would have died had the takeoff been continued. And the aircraft was burned to the ground. 60kt runway excursions could end very very differently.
Yes, the fire might have burned the wing off in the circuit too. We'll never know. But I would argue that the statistics of a wing failing off / exploding after an engine failure and fire post V1 and continuing don't bear out the risk of conducting an airborne abort and overrun into the weeds / buildings / highways.