Frustration at the sheer dependence of your position and the need to feel you’re doing SOMETHING, making some kind of progress.
Discussion
So fiat mindset? Because you don’t control the gate, you don’t control the boarding calls, and you’re doing nothing actually productive.
I guess, feels like a reach though. It’s basically a symptom of shitty UX design. Also it’s inside an effective monopoly (don’t like this airport’s design and loading practices? Just use the one down the street next time!) propped up by crony capitalism (government restricts who can build airports, and subsidises them)