No offense to your personal experiences or feelings, but your peeve doesn't seem to be that bad.

On a Continental flight once (last flight of day), PBI-EWR, we were delayed 6 hours with no food services open, no President's Club, and one very unhappy agent.

When I wrote to them about it, I wasn't expecting a huge compensation - just something like $50 voucher or upgrades, etc.

Think about it: If you owned a business, and you were not doing so well performance wise, would you want to shell out $200+ to each of about 1000 customers??