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That is with bags though, with understandable is more work for them.

I don't think it's about more work. I was in a similar situation where we didn't have any checked luggage and simply wanted to let the company know not to wait for us for the second leg of the flight. They made a scene and said that if we don't show up, we'll be breaking some agreement with them and there might be consequences.

My understanding is that they are hell-bent on discouraging people from buying cheaper multi-hop flight tickets for one hop only.

Possible. Although I don’t really understand why it’s more work.

They have to manually intercept your bags from being transferred to the next flight.

Are you sure? At check in they always put a destination sticker on the bags. In this case they just put Amsterdam instead of London on the bag. It didn’t seem to be much of a hassle.

You normally check in bags for your final destination when all legs of the trip are with the same airline

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