However always amazes me how much it distresses people having to walk through these area, it is no big deal, maybe adds a few minutes on to your walk but it is hardly difficult.
These things are relative and compared with really distressing things, well they are just 1st World problems,
but when one is subjected to all the obligations of funneling before security, then security and then to be subjected unwillingly to a shopping mall before getting to a holding area before going to the gate, it's just another stress. If one likes to shop, especially in crowded spaces it must seem like nirvana