They're pushing you because you're 42 weeks. They have guidelines that they're supposed to induce so that they're out by this point.
I know you wanted to give your body time to go into labour itself so as not to rush things, but pushing it until 42 weeks has kind of done the opposite. They're now antsy and want that baby out.
So rather than the ok she's 41 weeks, come in tomorrow/ couple of days we'll try the pessary, give it a day, go home wait for a bed for waters broken and we'll wait a couple hours to let contractions start naturally if they want etc etc you have what you've turned up to. You agreed to induction, you're already 42 weeks so they want you in and waters broken now, they'll delay other inductions for you. They want drip in right now to get strong contractions from the off because they want that baby out asap rather than letting you labour naturally. They will have baby well monitored on the machine in case baby and placenta isn't handling contractions well, they will have you at higher risk of issues such as baby getting stuck as they will have a higher chance of being large as they are so overdue.
You're being pushed because you've left it so late, you've missed the deadline so to speak so its all hands on deck, pushing full steam ahead. You can push to be left to see if you establish labour naturally yourself, you're just going to encounter a lot more resistance than someone that was induced a bit earlier because statistically your baby is at much higher risk of complications.
Edit to add I was induced at 41+2 - had an EMCS because baby got stuck as they were huge. But placenta looked perfect, so mine was fine. My friend had her baby after induction at 41 weeks, they could tell her placenta was struggling when it came out and she was advised any future children she would have additional monitoring and be offered earlier induction as her baby was at risk. They don't know which placentas are and aren't fine so they act early to be safer for all.
Good luck OP!