Even in hard sci-fi and especially in real life, there are things that occur that defy explanation.
If I could give a good example, take the BattleTech universe - it's primarily grounded in being real robot, hard sci-fi, but there are occasionally things that arise that have no logical explanation. Morgan Kell's Phantom 'Mech ability, for one, or the dread Black Marauder.
And in real life, well, we're utterly replete with examples...
All that to say in that I feel it actually enhanced things rather than taking away from them, but I feel it would have been even better if they had never been able to capture Inuzuka at all.