Flying In day of

As I sit here in DC waiting on my flight to Miami with a broken plane with no estimate of repair/takeoff…. Never fly in the day of…. There are multiple people freaking out as they have cruises that are embarking today. Plane wasn’t even scheduled to land till 1pm… so at best these people only gave themselves a couple of hours of leeway. I am lucky as I was just flying standby on an earlier flight so I got moved back to my original flight. Yes there are people who have done it 10000 times with no issues but it’s never an issue until it is!