I follow the discussions on the line-up since December. It's been a rollercoaster of different mind states: euphoria, depression, anger, hope, disappointment, enthusiasm. It's been funny in some sense but you'd expect that to be over by end of March, wouldn't you?
I see three main reasons for this "confusion":
1. I challenge anyone to say the 25th anniversary of the WOA was not awaited as THE ultimate metal festival. Nobody told us so, but the feeling it was going to be just great was clearly instilled in all the thousands crazy metalheads (like yours truly) that fought hard for a X-Mas ticket until 5:30 a.m. of an August Sunday night.
2. Why on earth the final number of the bands being part of the 2014 line-up is not yet clear come March? It should not be difficult (maybe I'm very wrong, I never organised a worldwide famous festival....
) to say "X bands on the main stages, X bands on the minor stages, X Metal Battle winners, X comedians etc...". So one can judge by him/herself where we are in terms of bands and clearly decide if being happy with that or not.
3. The early announcements were very, very good (and this, take it or leave it, did not help as far as my point no. 1 is concerned) but the management of the X-mas advent calendar announcements was in my humble opinion a bit poor. Too many days with average-to-poor announcements have made the hype for the festival fall down and made pessimism take the front scene creating a general negative mood that the overall quality of the festival so far (which I still find good) did not deserve.
As I had the opportunity to state several time on this forum, it's not the headliners that make the quality of a festival. It's who you watch at 4 p.m. that tells you how good a festival is.