No doubt in my mind he did the right thing. I'm currently reading Tim Saunders "Island: Nijmegen to Arnhem" and it didn't take long to find confirmation of how much of a tough advance XXX Corp still had ahead of it. The terrain was perfect for the defenders plus the excessively wet conditions along with the muted role allied airpower was reduced to. Advancing towards Arnhem at that point would have been a disaster. Plus their ammunition was low. Also worth remembering that some of XXX Corps were still occupied with securing Nijmegen cleaning up determined areas of German resistance.
Hard to believe what I was reading. That the Germans achieved air superiority on a Western front battlefield for the first time in quite awhile. I guess what it all boils down to is that Market-Garden was too dependent on thinking the Germans would roll over and put up only token resistance.
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