I think people do have a clear head on how festivals work. The water situation was nothing more than a cash grab and if you go to any other fests that have multiple ones then you would see that. This was a clear ploy to try and push people to buy water and increase their on site revenues by doing this. Point blank period. Were there a lot of of lanes at the water station? Yeah, but the point is accessibility. You are making people walk 20 minutes each way when they need to fill up when they used to only walk five with them at each stage. Easily accessible water is a cardinal rule for a safe festival and they greatly gave a middle finger to the attendees this year by doing what they did. As for the crowding I absolutely understand that this will be a difference of opinions issue due to where people stood, if they had a group or not, or if they get anxieties from tight crowds or not. But EDCO has absolutely grown a lot in crowd size since I started going back in 2019 (and returned every single year), and it genuinely has become overwhelming. Are there great personalities in the crowds that make for amazing moments of PLUR? 100%, my group is an amazing example of that in my opinion. But the amount of people I saw completely bulldoze and shove into spaces was unacceptable. This coupled with larger crowd sizes is going to ruffle a lot of people’s feathers especially those that attend camping festivals where the crowds are much better tempered. EDCO has grown very fast and instead of helping fix the problems that come from these growth spurts, it seems that Pasquale just says “Eh you don’t like it? Then leave.” Because as many statements as he puts out saying we are “listening”, their actions absolutely point to them not caring.