CB, preaching to the choir my dear!
If you lived up this way, you wouldn't have got any sleep.
It's just that we bust a gut to ensure our night movements adhere to our noise abatement procedures to keep the locals happy, and for our "noise night curfew" between 2300 and 0600/0700. But some nights the phone on the Watch desk rings and you can take an educated guess why. Sometimes you just feel like bashing your head against a wall. And Expedite your're totally right. Increased spacing on final cause the drivers were finding it hard getting off the runway.