Why? It’s only one button press. If they change it, it will only lead to complaints that players who want to ride as a passenger can’t because they are used to it defaulting to yes.
I ever did a freight service on RRO and I had to wait 10 minutes, I was in the meantime walking around and when it turned green-yellow, I ran back to the train and right before when I sat, it said that give up thing and I pressed yes because I wanted to sit down.... and I had to wait another 10 minutes
It has happened to me many times and in many ways. In one of them, I was forced to go back to the passenger car, sit down, and wait until next station for me to rejoin control! This time it was good because I was able to continue on the train and enjoy the scenery. But there was a time that the doors closed, I was left out and the train went away... Yes, I tried to run and throw myself in the rails and wagons to try to call that bug that you are teleported into or onto the wagon. Sometimes it works... But I'm sad when the bug doesn't work and I see the train disappearing from the map.
I think it should be an option in the pause menu as sometimes I've ended up waiting ages after completing a service for the thing to pop up. Just get rid of the pop up and add it as an option in the pause menu or when a button is pressed.
There should never be a pop up in the first place. After playing over an hour on West Somerset at the penultimate station I walked about and before setting off again, wanted to interact with the hotplate, when that dreadful pop up came about right the moment I clicked. Must have been milliseconds that saved me from losing all progress from that service as it did not register. Make it an option in the pause menu, the pop up is ridicolous.
Just get rid of it altogether, and put a "give up service" option in the pause menu. The dumbest "feature" in TSW2, imho.