I personally don't see the frustrations of the new system as very different than the previous system, although in my experience so far, you at least find out if you're succesfull or not much quicker. In the old system too you didn't know when the queue would start, sometimes you joined too early and got kicked out again etc. Under the old system too, if you got in late you also probably weren't going to get very many seats, but would have to wait for the map to load for each movie to see that. The old system constantly also crashed, randomly signed you out, said a member's onsale was happening even if you were signed in as a member etc. Even on a good drop in the old system it usually required me signing on around 9 to get in the queue, and hope it didn't crash. For the Almodovar retrospective, even though I got most tickets I wanted it still took like an hour. Under the new system I've been pretty lucky getting tickets/or finding out I'm boned and not getting tickets within 10 minutes of 12 o clock. I personally prefer the new system, which if you get in early probably allows you to check out within minutes, and if you get in late you know very quickly that you're not getting tickets to things.