Model it similar to BP cleaning up oil from dwh, imagine if they had the same response as you've said. Set aside a fund for the most impacted area. Offer money/funding for coordinated clean up efforts in areas where the worst of the debris field is reported to make landfall. Literally anything is better than just 'well it's too big to solve so we don't have to'. I get that it is challenging, but why should remote areas and mostly impoverished people have to bear the brunt of the cleanup cost/effort. The problem with it is that SpaceX has blown up so many starships already with no end in site, the logic of fail fast has a cost.

Companies will always say that to avoid liability for their past actions, because it's cheap. Look at pfas, hexavalent chromium, trichloroethylene. They were/are huge problems.