I made no comment on this being a good thing or a bad thing. There are three facts here:

1. The fence is needed to preserve the safety of the scouts.
2. The scoreboard will be hard to read with a fence in front of it. This is based on the legibility of the lower portion behind the fence that already exists.
3. The scoreboard is structurally unsafe to maintain in it's current form.

The first two of these three facts are conflicting so in the long run something will have to give.