Your objection is legitimate, but implies that the horse would be allowed to evacuate. After all, passengers are exhorted to "leave all personal belongings and baggage" on board when evacuating - I assume that that would apply also to "emotional support" animals. On the other hand, not evacuating the animal might slow things down even further.
I wonder if the airlines will now have to revise their pre-flight safety instructions to include the admonition: "Put your oxygen mask on first before to attempting to assist young children or livestock."
Regards,
On EVERY SINGLE evacuation, passengers will stop in the aisle - blocking passengers from leaving a life threatening situation so they can open the overhead bins and try to take their belonging with them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IMzXUYTiUU
“. . .but implies that the horse would be allowed to evacuate.”
You try and stop some fat lady with a horse from trying to “save” her horse by pushing it towards the emergency exit. . .and blocking people from exiting.
People WILL die during an emergency because of those irresponsible selfish twits that bring animals into the cabin.