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Because life is not a movie?
Is also isn't an episode of Kings where a hostage situation was similarly ended when a group of sharpshooters simultaneously shot all of the hostage-takers in the head and shooting through metal walls.
I'm sure forceful contingencies are being considered and at some point might be used but all of them carry increased risk of death or injury for the hostage. So, so long as continuing to talk does not do so, why not continue to talk?
And it may not be so easy as you think for a eight Navy seals to simultaneously surface, aim, and with 100% accuracy kill their assigned hostage all in less time than it takes for a hostage taker to shoot the hostage.
For a sense of how hard it is, I suggest taking your gun down to the local swimming pool, go down to the bottom of it and then surface, aim, an shoot some target within 1 second of surfacing. Once you get that skill mastered do it with a friend where you both have to shoot within the same one second. Then up the ante by doing it in sea swells and where whatever you're shooting at gets to duck if it sees you several feet before you surface (which very well might unless you are farther away in which case the shot gets exponentially harder).
So yes, I think you're oversimplifying.
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