Operation of the door has been under their control the whole time. If they choose to close it and lock themselves out, that's their prerogative. Am thinking of them choosing to be injected with one of the substances falsely referring to as vaccines, but it could be any choice that's irrevocable in practice.

Sympathy for the malfunctional, crippled, and inferior is not unwarranted, but at the same time you don't want to promote that level of quality or competence as your actual ideal.

exactly to prove a point to all others and show them that you also can escape.

I think the problem with this is that I'm seeing it as a wasted message to the other 85 that 'they too' could potentially slip in under the cutoff.

There are always a group of those people who wake up in the last minute.

Systemic and imposed deadlines exist for a reason. Without deadlines where choices are finalized, you have chaos and a collapse of the system. If a percentage are able to reverse or correct their quality issues and effectively 'escape', then they've kind of proven that while they might be bottom tier, they really did deserve to slip through at the last minute. But this shouldn't be artificially encouraged or promoted. It should be a result that's entirely of their own merits, otherwise it's a false positive.