during the final stages of covid you could only buy tickets beforehand and therefore there wasn't really a hard door to get though. It sucked and destroyed really any unique character. For example, usually sissy is more colourful, more festival-like, easy going but being there during the last civid-stages it sometimes felt like an after-work event. With young professionals who look like they are being spat out of co-working spaces, wearing chinos and all.
I used to resent the door policies but after this experience (it really destroyed the atmosphere!), I am glad they exist.