I’m struggling to understand how one can suggest delays should be tolerated in order to carry not-in-bag bikes and the burden of argument is on others to prove

I’m struggling to understand how one can suggest delays should be tolerated in order to carry not-in-bag bikes and the burden of argument is on others to prove that JR should just allow delays. This is such a weird hill to die on. As another commenter said, watching the boarding process would make it obvious that it’s not easy to allow bikes beyond the current method of letting them on in a bike bag as luggage (works fine by the way, I’ve personally done it). I was just taking a train in Europe yesterday thinking about this comment thread. The train left a few minutes late from the starting station and each stop was 3-4 minutes. That simply doesn’t work with a headway of 5-10 minutes. The Shinkansen stops for like one minute, and on a busy train it takes a few more minutes to actually get everyone seated. If you have large luggage, the social norm is to stand with it between cars until everyone else boards, so you don’t block them. This works with a bike in a bag, but I can’t imagine a fully assembled bike being there.