Look, people have all kinds of lousy reasons for taking bad actions or for making awful decisions...sometimes even emergencies circumvent priority-driven strategies, eh?
You'll go bonkers trying to acertain the motives of others. Just stick to your plan as best you know how.
We are all here to learn. Some learn better than others. While others never seem to learn at all. Still others have the crappiest luck one can imagine, eh? thv