I guess I am talking about the million ticket requests vs how many showed up. That’s what was being griped about. Those fake ticket requests had little bearing on empty seats. Those empty seats came from a variety of reasons, some of which you mentioned in your post.
Fake ticket requests had a HUGE bearing on turnout.
If you hear 3 days in that 800,000 tickets were requested you’re going to figure you’ll never get in and you won’t try.
Growing about those numbers was a mistake.