It just seems to me like switching from “getting out of this situation” to “accepting this situation” or “making the best out of this situation” isn’t just changing approaches, but changing what problems we’re trying to solve.
I suppose it depends on how it’s set up? If I spend all of the first act talking about how getting off this remote planet is the goal and what the options and consequences are, and so on, would the explosion of the ship feel more like a story outcome with everything else being its consequence, than if I simply described “getting off this planet” as the most viable and obvious option in trying to “secure a future for themselves and their offspring”?