Just received an email with more detailed season ticket information. Most notably:
each STH will be designated a unique time slot to our seat selection site to view and purchase seats.
This is very interesting to me, and I fear perhaps a dangerous procedural move. I am very concerned the "cheap "seats will sell out leaving only inventory out of (my) price range, which means it is a reasonable possibility I do not get season tickets at all this year, while a cluster of seats in more expensive sections go unsold.
This is in contrast to their historical process where seat arrangements happen out of view to the public, where they can easily upgrade higher-tier STHs to make room elsewhere for lower-tier requestors. In theory this can still happen - ticket reps can call higher-tier buyers with "good news - you've been upgraded" - I'm just a little surprised they're doing it this way and potentially exposing a lack of interest in higher-priced inventory.