Rude message from recruiter after exiting interview process

Backstory: I was approached by this recruiter for an engineering position in my city. I told him I was happy with my current job but might be interested in the new one because it was much closer to home. Basically I told him let’s just see where this goes. A single virtual interview was set up with an engineering manager which I attended and it went well. 30 minutes afterward the HR personnel for the company reached out to schedule a second interview in the same week (3 days away). At this point, I didn’t really have time to digest the first interview and position details but I went ahead and scheduled one. The recruiter called me after and told me to “Really think about this because they are moving fast and will likely make an offer assuming the second interview goes well”. He did NOT ask me to call him like he said in the screenshot. I want to point out that during this process I was directly communicating with both the company HR and this recruiter separately. Now, I did exactly what the recruiter said and thought about it, and realized that I was not ready for a switch and am genuinely content with my current job. I guess this is where I messed up?? I emailed both the HR director and the recruiter at the same time detailing that I appreciated their time and consideration while politely asking to be removed from the applicant pool. This was done 24 hours before the second interview. I guess I could’ve sent something sooner, but they were moving so fast. So that’s it - is what I did (going straight to the HR team) truly a sin? If it was truly unprofessional, then I wi…

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