There is quite a stark difference between waiting in your home, with your family, while being able to continue your day to day life (if you are a resident/citizen) and not being able to go back to your life, losing your job in your home country, while not being allowed to find a job either in the US, all the while you have to pay for accommodation and food for months or a year out of thin air (in the case of most non-residents).
How can you think both those situations equally suck?
I put it to you that the person so affected, and sentenced to time served, would in fact find it to be a "big deal".
I think that actual equality would have him awaiting trial on bail back home in the UK, not Los Angeles.
Please check your language. Why does this wind you up so much?
I refer you to this that goes into in in more detail: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20541499
Other people get it, if you don't; you don't and can stop bothering me with aggressive questions. People on the internet don't, in general, "gonna have to explain". It's optional.
I can't tell if you're missing the point deliberately or not. Either way, I'm not interested.