Yeah…lots of possible factors that could have been present that would keep me from posting about this in a thinly veiled “I’m not the sharpest tool in the shed, but then again I’m pretty much the sharpest tool in the shed” kind ow way.
Perhaps umpteenth leg in the last couple days and when crew was borderline fatigued. Maybe decided to just move this risk off their (and their passengers) plates because this time, this day, their experience told them to go conservative.