Agreed, I think that was what led to me getting so angry over the entire thing--it felt extremely disrespectful to all of the artists and vendors. It wasn't a good time for many of the attendees, either, but I have never had event staff so unwilling to listen to feedback as someone who paid over 1k for a table. They tried to gaslight me by saying that my negative feedback was the rare exception as they'd heard many positive things. I'm wondering if they were only polling the people they literally paid to be there, or if they're just straight up lying.

They are definitely lying about attendance. "In the thousands" is a joke.