No, not until after the flight. And whether my request would have been recognized with as much cooperation and understanding by a different flight attendant mid-flight remains an open question.

I was genuinely curious to see how long the "lockout" would last. I'll be on this same flight again next week, so I'll see what happens there with a different crew, and maybe I'll mention something earlier.

Like I said, I tend to be fairly easy-going with these types of things and recognize there are some who don't care about the windows and think that darkened windows all the time are perfectly fine.