Originally Posted by
stayinalive
Long story short, I am hopeful people do not forget the origin of why the overhead space is such a challenge and think twice about making such strong statements that laptop bags, backpacks, and purses belong below the seat. Passengers 100% have the right to place those bags in the overhead space and it is not a DYKWIA (though OP did point out that OP shared the story for different reasons).
Every flight is pretty much full these days, and it's totally selfish to be putting smaller items in the overhead...leaving little to no spaces for later boarding passengers' large carryons. No one is saying that is a DYKWIA move, the DYKWIA part is using their status as somehow that is okay.
People can't even place their carryons correctly. For those planes with wider and deeper bins where you can put carryon luggage on the side like a book in a book case, even after demonstration from the GA, and repeated instructions from FA, people still cannot place them correctly.