Great show, awful stage
I've seen Metallica live 6 times, three of them with the 360 stage, and honestly I have such mixed feelings about it.
I've experienced it both seated and GA.
Seats usually mean bad sound in stadiums, GA had much better sound but visibility was awful. Even though I thought we were not that far from the stage, the view was very often obstructed by those huge-ass towers + a bunch of people in Lux Aeterna premium seats.
I feel like we might have just landed in one of the worst spots possible, because not only that but also the stage is not flat, and the space right in front of us was lower than some other parts so even when the band was right in the front, we could barely see them through the smartphones cause ofc everyone would start filming then.
I'm a bit over 6' so I could still see 'something' but my wife was basically watching the screens all the time. It was so baffling when Creeping Death started, we could hear them but couldn't see them like, at all.
Is it only our experience? So far I've generally seen a lot of praise for the current stage.
TL;DR
360 stage seems like it's much better for a very small percentage of people who are either really close or pay ridiculous amount of money for the Pit or other "premium" experiences, but all the rest gets a much worse experience than with a regular stage.