why do people keep saying piper made her parents pay to go on a luxurious trip to lie about going to the monastery

i feel like i’m losing it, because they quite literally discuss this in the first episode. the family (mainly tim) tagged along to what was originally supposed to be just her going to the monastery. she doesn’t like the white lotus and wasn’t the one who picked it (tim did). she lied about the monastery because they wouldn’t have allowed to her to go on the trip if they knew it was to move there for a year, not just research a thesis.

talking about her “conning them” or “getting mummy and daddy to pay for a family trip so she can find herself” is such a bizarre mandela/false consensus effect or something? so many people somehow cultivated the same false ideas about how the family got there?