easyJet are going to encourage more people to check in online from 30APR by closing the airport check in desks.
No doubt they will come in for the usual barrage of criticism from their detractors but it seems to make sense. Online check in is available from 30 days prior to departure, so it would be difficult for anyone to say that they couldn't access a computer within that period. They are not planning to charge for airport check in, which will still remain for 'exceptional' circumstances.
As long as they increase the number of bagdrop desks to compensate, it should work fine. It seems to me that in the last few years the difference, from a passenger perspective, between check-in, with hold luggage, and bag drop, has become blurred anyway.