It's the latter - Noah is incredibly overworked at this point in the Boskone War. He's running a business, was co-running a war until very recently (and fighting Haruhi every step of the way here), and suddenly has over a dozen people from other realities show up on his doorstep; he's not firing on all thrusters.
So, yes, it's intentional. There'll be another scene to this effect in chapter 4...
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
So, yes, it's intentional. There'll be another scene to this effect in chapter 4...
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012