Nah, I think it's you that's missing the point to be honest. When it comes to signing players, etc, teams like Kilmarnock, Motherwell, Livingston, St Johnstone are all peer clubs. St Mirren already have one of the smallest budgets in the league. Even with Kilmarnock and Motherwell's grand gesture of only having 4-5 thousand OF fans into each home game, that's still a big budget deficit St Mirren have to overcome, even with the current arrangements, worse with the ones you think we are honour bound to implement immediately instead of 23/24 as promised.
Personally I'd rather have one stand open to the OF, but that budget needs to be made up somewhere, or it needs to be unbudgeted cuts to the playing squad for this season. You can bet your fucking life that the guys on here insisting cuts to the playing budget are fine right now will be screaming in a month's time when we are unexpectedly missing out on players heading to the club's mentioned above.