"The horizontalism that is implicitly..."
From an 18 year old in Wisconsin (me):
Indeed. i don't much like horizontalism in Mass. At my Church, 1/2 the people show up 5 minutes before Mass, about 1/4 of the people leave after Communion, and another 1/4 leave as Father is walking out (before he is out of the Church). It's very sad.
Oh, and walking around that parking lot after Mass is hazardous to one's safety.
The stampede is very annoying, I agree. It always makes the priest look sort of pathetic, as he attempts to make a formal exit BEHIND a group of people who are thundering down the aisle on their way to the doughnuts. Or the parking lot.
I doubt that anybody has anything so important going on in their lives that they can't wait another 30 seconds for the priest to leave first.
Have you ever been in a church that has an inconspicuous sign for those who walk out of Mass saying:
Judas left early too! ????