I had an incredibly smooth connection in EWR today. My flight up from the south didn't even need to circle the airport; it was already lined up with the runway naturally. Touched down with no congestion, taxiied for less than 10 minutes. We were at the game 30+ minutes early so had to wait for a crew who weren't ready, but they got out there in less than 5 minutes. Was up and in the terminal within 15 minutes of touching down. And my next gate was right next door. The whole thing felt too eerily easy, given my past experiences with EWR.