It will be very interesting to see how the switch away from secondary airports to more main line airports impacts Ryanair's performance, the costs are likely to be higher and OTP will likely fall. If they can attract extra passengers at a higher price that will help, but there is still a long way to go to change many peoples perception of the Ryanair experience, justified or not.
Gate cut off times can be tricky in big airports and a standard STD -25 or -40 close the gate attitude, even if you can see someone running to make the flight approach will rankle and before someone ! points out that gate cut off times are shown on the booking form/ticket, real passengers have real lives and jobs that don't revolve around defending a particular airlines customer policies on Pprune
The other effect of taking your passengers into proper airports is they get to see how the likes of easyJet, Norwegian & Vueling deal with passengers from check in to gate.
It is good to see that Ryanair are trying to improve their product offering, ditto some of their employment T & C's it shows that the market is working