Originally Posted by PresRDC
There's a great argument for not being one of the last to board the plane and a powerful incentive to keep elite status and thus priority boarding.
Agreed -- but sometimes easier said than done when you are making a connection. More than once I have arrived toward the end of boarding and been forced to gate-check my very modest carry-on because all the bins were already full. That would seldom happen if the limits were regularly enforced.