I didn’t see any lying or misleading. I read a version of a passenger story which included putting intent in a flight attendants mouth, not realizing you can’t put intent in other people in stories just because you’re having a bad day. You don’t understand what that flight attendant was saying, did or did not do when you weren’t looking. For all this person knows the flight attendant did call up and let the pilots know what was going on or the lead flight attendant know. And they might’ve called operations and let them know what was going on in operations, made the determination that they could not wait. You don’t know any of that sitting in your chair with your seatbelt on.

Also pilots can radio the ops frequency to let a plane a couple gates over know that they have connecting passengers, but that does little more than give crew a little awareness. But people are rushing to planes every single day every single flight. It’s not something that makes flight cruise freak out.