This is a relatively fair post. I mean, if you want to be an old man shaking his fists at clouds, by all means, this site and this country and this planet are full of them. At least you acknowledge that it had a purpose, which was to bring money and facilities into the program that the team needs to be successful. That's more than some people acknowledge.
For what it's worth, there were literally architectural reasons that the bowl couldn't be closed completely and that technically the SEZ is not connected to the rest of the stadium. Closing in the bowl, in no world, was ever an option. You could have tried to match the look and feel, sure, I guess. But that doesn't raise any kind of special money needed for the actual facilities and team resources aspect that was truly the goal of the whole project. It's just more bowl seating.
And additionally, for what it's worth, UT's campus is not that big and it's surrounded by a pretty big city. There just aren't a lot of spaces where we can put things when we want to expand. When we have the football indoor facility that is being built now, we'll have a centrally located area of campus that will treat and handle all of our student athletes needs. That wasn't easy to pull off. Sometimes you have to make do with what you have, and I think we've done a pretty decent job of checking all the boxes, whether you hate the Disneyfication or not. I could have done without the longhorn outline, personally.