If you give conference attendees the option to have that much fun, they will take it and go party instead of, you know, networking and discussing the conference topic with their professional peers.

This, to me, is not a successful outcome of a conference.

Because there's absolutely no intersection between having drinks and partying and discussing relevant conference topics.

Some of you need to loosen your britches around here, seriously.

Perhaps you should stop making the same point over and over in different comments..