Going alone can be nice, depending on what you want to see/do vs what other people want to see/do. My mother isn’t a fan of crowds either, but makes an exception for the state fair.

I’m going to try new stuff like the indigenous food lab that the other commenter mentioned, but yeah, I’ve also got favorites that I save room for. In my case it’s the fry buckets, and the earth wings at French Meadow.