Also political considerations. If Boeing fails to bring the astronauts home then there will be likely many many test that need to be passed before they get another crewed mission contract. They are already +$1B in the hole because of past problems. It might be that they could not afford to continue with their space program. A loss for Boeing, a loss for NASA diversity.
Logically just burning up the capsule makes sense but the fall out likely has multi multi billions of dollars in the balance.
This will definitely cause pause amongst the non-cost sunk companies. They will be wondering what Apple knows.
IMO this signals the lack of clear ROI versus maintenance costs. Silicone Valley is used to funding huge projects like Amazon which took years to choke out the competition and make money. But AI is a new market which is more interesting to investors than people who didn’t want it in their mouse.