A little higher and the players would have had to
land the plane themselves.
No.
The aircraft is designed to take that impact on the windscreen at cruise speed without damage that would harm the crew. The random is of composite materials so as not to be opaque to their radar. It can be smashed much easier than the air frame. The radom is not part of the pressurized hull thus an incident such as this will not result in depressurization.
Boeing knows what they are doing.