Great food and entertainment, good itinerary, nice stateroom, TOO MANY people

This was our 12th cruise and one of the shortest. The overall experience was mostly positive, especially the quality of food, both in the Windjammer and main restaurants (excluding maybe 'Sorrento's' pizza, that was too heavy and soggy, definitely not authentic pizza), and very good entertainment. 'We will rock you!' was absolutely the greatest 'The Queen''s inspired musical, performed by a very talented group of dancers and singers indeed. Another reminder of what a great MUSIC once was...The technology in Spectra's Cabaret was amazing, as well as the upbeat music choices, though the scene and action were not easy to see from some seating areas. The Latin band in 'Boleros' was great too - we usually spent the late night hours there, watching people dancing to their music, and especially pleased by their notably great singer Jose Manuel. The waiters Akish and Dilshod in the 'Silk' restaurant were great too, while 'Yury from Croatia' was absolutely hilarious, with his unique and keen sense of humor in Jamie Oliver's Italian specialty restaurant. We liked both 'North Star' and  the Ripcord 'skydiving' experience. The private island (CoCo Cay) was OK, but we liked Labadee, Princess Cays and Half Moon Cay (Carnival cruise line) better. Our stateroom was nicely sized and well appointed, the bathroom was spacious enough and the balcony was adequate. Some negatives - our main complaint refers rather to the whole current super 'mega-ship' cruising trend, more and more being adopted by the industry. We think there needs to be some limit to the ship size and number of people onboard. The idea of packing as many people as possible at the expense of the common public areas seems to become questionable. For example, it usually took a considerable extra time finding a table in the Windjammer or a seat in the main Theatre. Also, the interior design on this ship is a little lacking and rather bland to our taste, especially in comparison to the older, but still beautiful 'Brilliance of the Seas', Celebrity 'Summit' or Carnival 'Pride', for example, or even more older ships, like Celebrity 'Century' or 'Grandeur of the Seas'. Those ships had much better passengers/public areas ratio, less crowding, more variety and generally richer looking materials (natural woods, higher quality carpeting etc) and were just perfectly sized overall. Those were more ships, than huge floating hotels, so to speak. We also missed their fabulous central atriums and/or staircases very much, we still remember those long gone fabulous midnight buffets and uniquely carved ice sculptures! The 'Anthem' with its overly simplified interior decor, a 'shopping mall' resembling promenade and 'economy' looking restaurants (esp. 'American Icon'...), plus not very attractively decorated main theater, reminded another similarly sized mega-ship we sailed few years ago - Celebrity 'Solstice' with its equally uninspiring, even somewhat cheap(!) looking interiors. BTW, the latter, also wasted a lot of already limited public space - the entire upper deck is occupied by the huge golf course (kind of strange idea in our view). Still, even with all the above negatives, the overall impression from this cruise was positive - from genuinely friendly, professional staff, to plentiful, delicious food, to great entertainment. Therefore - recommended.