More Words, Deeper Hole

This, along with about half of any questions about why someone made some dumb plot decision in any movie, is answerable by "Someone read 'The Elements of Screenwriting' when learning to write screenplays, and no one told them to ignore all the parts of it that are not to do with formatting a screenplay". Generating artificial conflict as being more important than realistic character depth is pretty deeply rooted in Hollywood writing because of the 'this is the correct way to have your plot' sections of that book.