I'm not sure I read anything about SRO, but I know there weren't more than a dozen or so tables/parties that night. There was a ton of space in the area, which I wouldn't have thought would even suggest SRO. And, honestly, as few people as were there, if a few people had just stayed in their seats, all the kids could have seen fine, as could have most or all of the adults. Even with the view being blocked and my child trying to peek through the adults at the railing, I stayed in my (front row) seat so I didn't block the view of people behind me...
But then I've seen numerous flame wars erupt over whether parents should expect other adults to accommodate kids at such things. I both think the adults should, as a parent, and try to myself as an adult. (Very little is more irritating to me than an adult at a parade who scoops up all the candy thrown from the floats while the kids beside and behind them desperately try to get a few pieces, but I've seen it not infrequently...) The parameters of polite human behavior very so much from person to person, I find myself unable to understand people sometimes...
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From what I gather, they just added or somewhat recently added the SRO comment on their website where you go to reserve a spot. There is still assigned seating at the tables. But what I read was that if you have a table towards the back there is some sort of overhang from the roof that blocks the view, so to compensate for the poor viewing spots and I would imagine to stop people from complaining about others moving to the railing, now everyone is expected to be able to go up to the railing. Was that confusing, I think I'm too tired to type.
Anyway, we're going to try it out, I like the idea of having a place to watch the fireworks from and I never turn down a dessert table, so I'm all in.
But I'm with you, people are too hard to understand.