The main point of any TV show is to entertain. They aren’t there to be a fair sports competition to find earth’s greatest cook. Especially not for such a low-brow entertainment-first cooking show as cutthroat kitchen.

That part of the episode was decent drama. The mix-up clearly made the scene more interesting. If this was an actually serious cooking show it would not have gone like that. But it’s an entertainment show and that’s ok as well.