I’ll repeat this here:
Stuff like that pirate challenge to the 007 brand doesn’t happen in a vacuum. Whatever Broccoli is, she has seen enough to know how draining such a freak show can turn out - in a climate where it’s entirely unpredictable how long this idiocy would take. Or how it ends.
At our age - we’re roughly the same generation - you start valuing your time more than many other considerations. I could entirely understand if that was her reasoning: let the ***ing idiots have their way. 