I can’t be the only one who likes airports with lots of good shops to browse round? I hate flying to the little tin pit eu airports where all they have is a tiny cafe that’s never open and a collection of hard seats.
bearing in mind I do tend to get to the airport 2 hours prior at least because I hate rushing I find all the shops a rather pleasant distraction. The only airport I haven’t enjoyed recently was Luton - but to be fair they were in the middle of seemingly taking the terminal apart so there wasn’t much of anything, but even then the lounge was pretty good.
i assume the detractors are the types who turn up to flights using the just in time Model and arrive at the gate sweaty and out of breath. I choose not to do that