It might be too good for that. It's the difference between it being economically repairable or being economic to pay someone else to repair.
I think it's likely worth repairing by someone who can do the work themselves and is going to use the car afterwards.
It's when you add the cost (and uncertainty) of paying a garage's labour and overheads that it becomes uneconomic, and much more high risk.
It might even be possible for someone to rebuild the existing engine. At least one person here has rebuilt a badly damaged engine on a car which almost certainly would otherwise have been broken for spares.
