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I kind of agree with this but IIRC there were concerns over using up too much of Cassini's data stream for DL'ing long term data from Titan (and IIRC Casini had to be pointed in a specific way and in a specific orbit to relay Hyugens data anyways) so a long term Hyugens probe would have fucked with Casini's operations too much.

Also launching one RTG is a political nightmare as it is. Launching two RTG's on one spacecraft would have been even more headache.

Personally i'm just glad Hyugens was a thing at all, on any other mission it would have been replaced with some meme instrument of dubious usefulness for making the mission profile too complex.