SOE is right by all accounts.
What we have at EDI, especially the part around gates 1-4 is a 1970s terminal in the 21st century. The "corridor" set up which only allows either boarding or disembarkation to be done on Gates 1J-4 and not both at the same time is by no means acceptable for the amount of people EDI handles these days and it does nothing to help the flow of passengers or airport operations during peak times. The problem at EDI is they have just neglected to give us anything new, any real expansion of the terminal building, other than the area where there are shops. The SE pier was a wasted opportunity. They could have given EDI a much needed international section, with improved immigration and customs facilities and gates which could handle wide body aircraft in a way which didn't cause other parts of the airport to be shut off!
While BAA, on the whole were good, they did fail to leave us with an airport which was fit for modern day and seemed more interested in catering for what they had rather than building to attract new business.