No doubt, but if Huw mentioned the tour til May, he didn‘t see the UK dates yet. So this might still take a while. So it still leaves the question why Jack White would choose the UK to world premier the new single with the tour leaving the UK out for now.
Haven't heard as many complaints about it hanging, or getting kicked out at the point of purchase though (some, but not a whole lot), which is what drove me mad with the previous system over the last few sales. Most reports saying the actual purchase was pretty smooth (with the caveat that the Thursday coach sale is always insane anyway trying to find available departures...especially 6 seats available!...never gotten coach for more than 1 or two before). Every year we've had multiple people in our groups through with reg numbers entered in good time, but toggling back and forth to get the payment through and still not managed to secure tickets for everyone, so I think if this system stabilises the actual purchase, it's probably worth it and no more or less pot luck than it was previously in terms of actually getting on the See site to buy in the first place. Hammering F5 seemed like it was helping, but I've done it for years upon years and there's been plenty of times I never got past the blue holding page, so maybe it only "felt" like we were influencing the outcome! From last night, basically, if your two bars don't start moving fairly sharpish, it looks like you are so far back in the queue with that device that you may as well give up with that one.
Depends. More easily manipuated now. More devices, more chances.
And theres tech bros out there who can have loads of logins via multipe VPNs et al.
Either way, al of our chances of going to Glasto from now on have reduced fro "ok" to "slim to none".