No, I believe that it was precisely the point that was being made. Well, I can't talk for IAN-UK but it was, at any rate, the point I was making: I was questioning the statement by the OP that "easyJet tickets are hardly cheap anymore". Anecdotal evidence does not enable one to draw such general conclusions: it suffices for me to show one contrary bit of evidence (which I did) to disprove the veracity of the OP's statement.

You are right that these are "personal answers" but personal answers have close to zero value for anybody else than the person: "I ate an ice-cream from a Mr Whippy's van in Aberdeen yesterday and it was awful whereas it used to be great in the past. Hasn't the quality of ice-cream in Western Europe gone down tremendously?". Well, no: it does not follow and the information that someone had an awful ice-cream from a Mr Whippy's van in Aberdeen would be of very little value to most.