Is it time to start calling out bad cyclists?

I almost always go through once peds are a metre or so clear of my line. Someone turned back and said "wait" once. I stopped and said "why?, I'm nowhere near you" (genuine question). She was really miffed but couldn't say why. I guess people expect it to be a traffic free zone while they're on it, but in all honesty I can't see why I'd sit waiting for them to mount the curb if they're ten feet away from where I am riding.

I have been thinking about this over the last couple of days. I think the thing that you did wrong was more a breach of etiquette than anything else - it's polite to wait for people to finish what they're doing before you continue. Similar to waiting for a vehicle to complete a manoeuvre instead of blasting past as soon as there's a big enough gap. I think people just see it as rude (which it is, a bit, tbh, soz).

My driving instructor insisted I stop and wait for them to get to the other side when I was learning to drive, and I tend to cycle the same way I drive, so it's drilled in. I believe it increases the sense of vulnerable road users that less vulnerable road users are being patient rather than pushy or aggressive.