I'm not saying tiered pricing is bad, or that expensive tickets are bad. I as a fan may not like it, but, I get it. I can grok that. It's one thing to trade in goodwill for money. To insinuate fans should be happy about it, or that this simply solves the problem? That's simply crazy talk.

You're not "solving" the problem of shortages, you're just deciding to make it a "cost" problem for fans. And that has its own set of fan-related problems (namely burn) that, if you can't solve, are bigger than "we can't justify renting a venue for another showing, sorry everyone."