Apologies, I worded it badly. Personally I wouldn’t be prepared to jump through the hoops and endure the stress with the possibility of leaving empty handed
One of the devops guys at my work made what I can only describe as a super cluster that had some machine learning element to fake the fingerprinting, and got through for a fairly reasonable AWS bill. I've also seen a few things posted that the usual 'pay for guaranteed access' people have done well, so it looks like touting will make a huge resurgence and further cut back on regular peoples chances.
They had a huge crowd at the National Bowl in Milton Keynes in 2008, which I recall because some people in my school year as a local to there went. More surprised they didn't book any other big outdoor shows like it between then and their initial disbanding tbh.