a couple things..

sound escapes due to the open-airness and no overhangs, lending to zero home-crowd advantage at times, assuming the "fans" are making noise at all.

there's essentially no seats in the shade except for luxury boxes. the entire east side is the stadium cooks in the second half. like, an old man died in the preseason. august/september and into october in the south bay is pretty fucking hot for bay area standards.

so people flee their seats for the shaded concessions. no one in their seats = again no crowd noise.

glad they finally figured out the turf issue after replacing the field three times, though.

i know it's year one in the new digs, of which jim harbaugh's name and face were marketed to hook-link-and-sinker the PSL holders for the big $50-80K buy-in, but so far jed's $1.3B "sustainable" toy ain't made a lick of a difference.

we'll see what happens this year.