Agreed, people get way too precious over the appearance of their vehicles.
@red-1 That’s for the owner of the vehicle to decide.
Personally, I would pursue someone who was being obviously careless and incompetent or flippant about it for every single penny[1], but might let it go if it was obvious it was a genuine accident and they were apologetic and approached me first (be that in person or a note), depending on the level of damage and cost to repair to a reasonable standard.
[1] e.g. they were speeding, using their phone/pratting with the radio/eating/drinking/whatever, had obviously consumed alcohol or drugs etc.
