@Often1:
I can understand you that you don't to make the lounge overly crouded during known rush hours so you (i.e. Finnair) don't want to start allowing to use it. It is just disturbing to me that it is really calm on a Saturday evening and at least in the last hour they had just me as a customer (but nobody else).

But the compensation amount for food felt quite low with just 17€ for over 6 hours of waiting. Although I guess it is normal for Finnair.

I can also add that the baggage "surprisingly" didn't arrive in time so I picked it up today at the airport just before the return flight.