There are thousands, and maybe tens of thousands, of people that used to go every year and want to go again but don't have a ticket (Tickets were capped at 15k and sold out almost immediately). What do they expect will happen?!
I would refer them to
@Dan's favorite maamar. In the spirit of Rashbi and R' Akiva, I think putting oneself aside is appropriate.
Also, IINM it's 15k per 4 hour period.
After last year most Charedim agreed to make changes, but it's 13 months later, and that's all they could come up with?
And let's be clear, most of those who will fight it in the next few days - and that's what will unfortunately happen - were not against safety improvements!
Everyone "agreed to make changes" and are "not against safety improvements", but did anyone put even 1/10th of the energy and efforts which are currently being used to subvert the restrictions into actually making safety changes? Talk is cheap!!!!
I'm not talking about the small % of extremists who will not cooperate with anything related to their local government. If things had been done the right way, over 90% would cooperate, and the extremists would remain powerless.
Were the powers of inertia just too strong?
There were fights about the inquiry commission. It seemed like the inquiry commission was going nice and fair, but unfortunately the judge that headed it died prematurely. Did that stop everything at it's tracks?
I am not throwing the responsibility here onto Eida Hachareidis, but they, for example know how to run large operations, as do several other groups that are independent from the state. I am not so sure that if they would come up with an alternative safety plan which they would run, it wouldn't be some kind of an acceptable compromise even to the zionist authorities.