If the recent headliners were organised slightly differently; E.g. 2022 had been Billie, Arctics, Macca and 2023 Kendrick, GNR, Elton then most of these arguments dissolve.
They’ve massively fucked up. It’s insanely busy everywhere all the time. We also got stuck in the Park-Arcadia shambles… horrible stuff. And it was definitely made worse when the idiot security put in a half-arsed one way round the tree, which you didn’t know about until you’d been dragged by the crush to the point they said “no way thru, turn round”.
My experience (3 yrs in cv east) has been that they’ve never checked that my cv ticket matches my general ticket. But other people have had theirs checked… Risky.