The fundamental problem is mis aligned incentives and consequences. It’s really unlikely YOUR luggage will impact YOur escape much at all, at worst you can aba

The fundamental problem is mis aligned incentives and consequences. It’s really unlikely YOUR luggage will impact YOur escape much at all, at worst you can abandon it at almost any point. The consequence of injury will be for those around you, and possible delay for people behind you. But not really YOU. For “important papers” I suspect there is some evaluation of how much they are willing to risk the lives of those other people at the back of the plane. Rule should be if you bring your luggage you are handcuffed to the plane until the last person leaves. I think in older times you would have more severe consequences.