Is your story, that your SAA flight was canceled due to strike and LH has rebooked you, so you've made it to your destination only 2 hours after the scheduled time?
Or is your story, that you get much much much worried about something and that LH doesn't offer the right channels for Eco guests without a status to support them?
but i'm sure if I hadnt been so pushy I wouldnt have made it to JNB
Actually I'm sure, that if you would have got rebooked to the same flight even if you didn't do anything before. You made yourself some bad days for nothing.
Some people get worried much much much because of smaller issues and others don't. That is a fact of life, which doesn't need to get escalated to LH's management.