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Yep - that's what they have to do in this situation.
Shame if you wanted to keep riding it. Not so bad if you do not.
(I was very surprised that my every day hack wasn't written off after a 20mph head on with a car, but given it was 520 steel and there was no evidence of ovalisation or crumpling a well renowned shop was happy to give it life yet. Still, got a new fork.)
Howard
The Serotta is dead.
Took it into Cyclefit and explained that my ideal was simply "replace bars and certify the bike is safe then have it serviced".
They asked me to describe the accident, so I went through the impact points from the collision and they took a look at the bike. It took them seconds to identify places of concern, and a couple of bits of external damage that when pressed revealed too flex and internal damage to the frame and fork.
Their initial advice is that at minimum I'd need to replace: frame (due to top tube), handlebars, stem, fork, levers. Then they would need to take a closer look at the wheels and would look at the rest too.
That's already enough that the whole bike should be written off and scrapped. The cost of replacing those parts is already the cost of a new bike.
The Serotta is dead.