I never play any sort of freeway games. It's just not smart, and could get you into an accident, or worse.
If an idiot thinks that lane swapping is really going to speed them up, I'll get enough satisfaction out of passing him later down the road in the same lane I've been in all the time.
You said something about tourists, and you're right. Lots of people on major interstates are on them for the very first time. You and I know which lane to be in as you pass through our own cities to make life easiest for us, but the poor tourist or other out of towner hasn't a clue. It can be a real problem, especially where three or four freeways intersect.
When I give directions to out of town visitors to our home here in Saint Paul, I tell them which lane they need to be in to navigate the spaghetti-like maze of I-94 through St. Paul. It's got three other highways merging into and out of it, plus left exits and all sorts of other confusion. But, if you drive it, you can get in one lane, stay in that lane, and ignore all the confusion around you until you get to your exit. It's not always the right lane. It's not always the 2nd lane from the left. It's a lane that continues all the way through the city as the freeway expands and contracts around it.
Tourists are completely at a loss with this mess, and I give everyone a wide berth. It's less stressful for me, too.
Well, when I play that game with the (usually young) jerks, they don't usually know that I am - I don't give them any indication, it just sort of looks like bad timing on their part, which it is. It just frustrates their desire to zig-zag down the road in an unsafe manner, really. But, I know that I probably shouldn't do it and just let them go on their merry way. They'll pull that kind of stunt around a cop sometime and get what's coming to them. Or they'll try and pass around the right of a tractor-trailer just as it decides to change lanes. Hopefully when it happens the only injuries will be to their ego.