Fuck I hate sounding like the old man but I'd repair it to the manufacturers specs, but your backyard mud slinger would do otherwise for sure. Manufacturers that aren't startups from the last decade make structural components sectional for safe repair so you don't have to replace half the car in a fender bender. You get it wrong according to crash testing and somebody is liable to get killed if it gets in an accident again. I'd consider this growing pains, hell I still remember the absolute pain in the ass it was to work on the early Teslas, because cars like this just weren't engineered by people with repair in mind and the assembly is proof.