Originally Posted by RangerNS

You're right, that is all that matters. You think that having to collect your bags has something to do with it being a stopover, whereas everyone else has experience knowing that it has to do with it being overnight.

The reasonableness of having to collect bags on an overnight connection is a matter of opinion. You haven't found much sympathy for that point of view.

Now you are changing the bar and saying its unreasonable they have unclear, maybe undocumented, and and maybe inconsistent policy. Well, if you lead with that: Welcome to FT. That is what we do here.