What a total nightmare.
Yeah, the public airlines system these days has no slack. One “matter” arises and tons of peeps are shafted.
I’ve flown but twice the year, one way from City A to General Greater Metro Area B each time.
Two different airlines.
The first trip started mid day with 3 legs ending up 60 mi from home, the second, very early morning, with two ending up ~30 mi from the compound.
For Trip # 1, on Leg three they decided to do a brake job on the plane at the gate. I switched to a different, same distance to the compound destination. Rented a car, (barely) made it home the same day
The second was OK with a couple of different public trans connections. Still took about all daylight part of the day to make it.
I really like the 1.5 day drive better now.