OP here. I think everybody wants to see SpaceX succeed of course, but when you're in the bleachers you are very keen to see it launch. For most people a scrub would mean packing bags and leaving the next day without ever witnessing the event they came to see, and all that money and time gone.

There is a weird dichotomy at KSC: the visitor center is like DisneyLand and the launches are like a NASCAR race. Yet the work being done is dead-serious, very high-stakes, and sometimes even significant for humanity.