I'm sure it met MCTs but I would never book a connection that short when the second flight is a long once-a-day kind of flight. The risk is too high. I know that the airline is obliged to take care of in transit passengers, but the passengers still miss out on part of their trip.
I imagine that there are many variables that help determine whether a flight will wait for connecting passengers. Knock on effects on the schedule, crew timing out, gate space, curfews at destination airports, IT systems advanced enough to tell the right people that the missing passengers are on a late connection, grumpy dispatchers, phase of the moon, goat entrails, etc.