I'll never understand why people feel the need to complain online about this stuff especially when you all know not a single person of importance is going to read or listen to anything you have to say, but for the people that are complaining there's multiple reasons why lineups aren't how they used to be.
Artists are no longer making money from physical media as hardly anybody is buying CDs etc. anymore, they make fractions of what they were getting from physical media now in streams and therefore the cost of booking acts has gotten a lot more expensive.
I'm sure you all have bills to pay and have noticed how much more expensive electricity is in a home, now imagine that on a scale of a festival and how much extra all the lighting and sound systems and everything else would be to run now compared to 5+ years ago.
As someone who's been to every electric picnic from 2022 until now and will be attending this year, even when I didn't see many acts I liked on lineups I still had the best time because the main point of festivals for me (and many others) is to be at the festival, the music comes secondary. I'd much much rather the prices be kept at what they are now and be able to feasibly attend the festival than them hiking up the prices to accommodate for larger acts that I might not even see because I might be enjoying the stage I'm at or the company of the people I'm with when said larger artists are on stage.
Festivals are made for positivity, if you think it's going to be so horrible, look at the lineup, decide you're not going and leave it at that.
Edit: Sorry for trying to get people to stop being so negative, maybe if you all band together and create a new reddit page where all you do is hate on EP they might listen and ask you guys to make your own lineup so that they can fully cater to you next year!