I don't think it's as simplistic as that. It could be but as I look at it from a big picture perspective I don't think so. It wasn't until February of 1996 that the NFL announced that the Browns would get a new expansion team in 1999. That gave a little over three and a half years to first find the funding for and then build such a stadium. That's a rather tight timeline and you can't construct a stadium you neither have the funding for or the time to build. I think not only was the expansion team a rush job but the stadium built was as well. We're just now beginning to see the consequences of that.
This 100, Lamp.
There wasn't enough time, patience, planning or foresight to really build "longevity" into the project. Combine that with the construction methods of driving pylons through landfill to support the weight and it was mission:impossible to ever add the weight of a dome retrofit later.
