Second season, but your point's still valid.
Personally a think the wide open stadium, with very long sight-lines and huge distant to the pitch, will rarely generate the atmosphere to give a home boost to the team. Making CL football and silverware as unlikely as it was at the Boleyn.
If ever you get rid of the owners, do you think WHU will get a proper football stadium elsewhere in the not too distant future? Are their sites?
IMO, the overly spacious stadium with its shallow gradient tiers, will rarely generate a 12th man atmosphere.
They (not me) say that Gold/Sullivan/Brady promised that losing their spiritual home and moving, would give the club the income to compete with the top 6, with transfer fee expenditure to match. That didn't materialise.