@@Pit-jt3lw Yes, TfL purposely make the public way out/in the longest way to walk. It forces those in the know of corridor or station secrets to go in that direction vs the long tourism TfL route as it spreads customer load. Remember that the London Underground wasnt designed to handle such passengers. The new Elizabeth line while not on the tube network but still connects to it on a major scale and has longer platforms and bigger trains still has secret routes, the most of any line in fact, because they expect in 20yrs it'll be busy like this platform was in the video. If you know a quicker way, you'd go that way and lessen the load of the "tourist" way. It totally makes sense. There are some stations where the arrows say way out this way, but its quicker if you walk in the opposite direction!
People are lemmings. They just see a door and head for that. Then they enter the train and stop instead of moving further into the train and making room for the people behind them.