New here or not, I disagree with this attitude that it's ok to break the rules because someone thinks they don't make sense, or that the simple act of stepping into the road constitutes unnecessary force.

A peloton that has been stopped once, and then does the same thing and ends up getting stopped again, THIS time with injuries, certainly is among the contingent I described - cyclists who ignore the rules because they think the rules shouldn't apply to them.

If you don't think that description applies to you, that's fine - I wasn't trying to apply it to you. What I was describing is a mindset among cyclists that we all know exists, and which I personally attribute to the members of this peloton.