Some posters on this and other threads look at airports as businesses and discuss them from a commercial point of view: what's the outlook for the business, is the strategy sound, and so on. Given the difficult landscape for smaller airports all over the world, that outlook is often questionable. Expressing doubt about the commercial future of an airline or airport isn't the same as wishing for the human misfortune that failure would bring.
Other posters look at airports like football teams: they cheer for their local airport. They want to see it succeed. Indeed they have faith that it will succeed despite external questioning. Ultimately their argument is a faith-based one (and maybe outsiders' critical questioning pushes them to more extreme defence, or to deny the right of outsiders to get involved.).
It seems to me that there will never be agreement between these points of view - it's what the French call a "dialogue of the deaf".
I'll wait to get flamed now from one side or another.
