I don't doubt you're right, however IMO this is all pretty distasteful!
The lucky ones are those who have access to private locations (e.g. roof of tall buildings) which have a good view of the fireworks. Nonetheless, having done this once (and been paid for the pleasure!) I wouldn't bother making a special trip for it.
Quite so, this is how I remember it a decade or two ago - apart from a bit of fuss over last-minute present buying I remember a calm and relatively subdued week or two, not like the frenzy we see nowadays. I do get the impression this frenzy has peaked slightly, perhaps because people are simply fed up with it, as the last year or two hasn't been *quite* so manic as the couple of years before that. Christmas 2016 was one which springs to mind as having been particularly excruciating, seemed to go on forever.