Worst is when you get invited somewhere and then the people decide they are making early shabbos.
Did Hashem make early shabbos when he created the world? I’ll prove not–Odom Harison was created bein hashemashos, so you wouldn’t even exist if He had. Thus, under the principle of “I think therefore I am,” since I am able to ask that question, I must exist, in which case Hashem must have not made early shabbos.
When I visit family, they always want to make early shabbos. I tell them: you do whatever you need to do, and I’ll show up whenever I can show up. This has the added value of not having to sit through sholom aleichem, aishes chayil, etc.