Yeah, exactly. At the point where there are too many individuals moving around, congregating where they’re not supposed to, etc., not sitting in their assigned seats so there’s no way to know who they are specifically, and apparently no effort on the part of the ‘good ones’ to tell the more egregious ones to sit down, I can see how the exasperated response would be “if they’re going to act like jerks together and endanger the entire flight, they’ll have to find a different airline to put up with it”.
If there were a few guys who were trying to help the flight attendants restore order who got caught up in the flight ban, then those people, and only those people, deserve the reward.