Yes, I remember the days when it was a big deal that the United clubs in Chicago had soup. SOUP! Something resembling actual food as opposed to cheese and crackers and plonk! I remember the first time I stepped into a foreign airline's lounge; it wasn't even the fanciest out there, but it was startling!

I'm sure everyone would prefer a whisper-quiet hideaway with table service and nap rooms, but the idea that lounges are a catastrophic mess now is silly. There is some overcrowding at peak times. They will figure out a way to adjust, whether that be through increasing capacity or reducing access. I vote for the former. I'm not the kind of person who can only get comfortable when I've been assured that many others are not. But surely it's the airline's job to figure out; playing crabs-in-a-bucket is silly.