Even having an agent on twitter request it and not getting it is not "yanking it away".
It certainly feels like it when there's a DL employee waiting at the door, asks for me by my last name -- at which point I'm all smiles, thinking I'm about to do the Sha-na-na to my first-ever Porsche -- only to be handed a downgraded BP to another flight... and THEN to discover that my checked bag made it onto my original flight.
Yeah... while you may technically be correct, it certainly felt pretty "yanked away" at the time.