Die hards like the system that heavily benefits die hards, you don't say? AP holders are a vocal minority when it comes to most things about the parks and grossly overstate their financial importance to the company. Having said that, there probably should be some token AP discount on a day of Genie+, or a handful of free days to use throughout the year.
FastPass+ in it's previous form had huge positives for people who knew how to play the system, and negatives for everyone else in the form of bloated standby wait times. This is a re-calibration: less FP throughput means more standby throughput, and shorter FP return lines. So the non-savvy guest in standby has a better time with less waits, and the savvy guest using Genie+ spends less time in return lines and can presumably book more passes than before.
I have not heard you say the new system is better or if you even like it. I must you say you seem to have an AP bias. I am an out of state AP user and am no different than someone buying a 10 day ticket, I just went 4 times a year. If going more made me savvy I can't help that, but I was a newb too and never found anything you said to enter my enter my mind regarding Fp or AP's being able to game the system, exactly how? We all had the same darn rules, that makes zero sense.
I am done saying it, but I will say it one more time. This new scheme, no scheme, can ever make the line waits any shorter, nothing can other than more space and more rides/attractions increasing the People Per Hour(PPH)!
There is no way to change throughput as you say, the rides pump out their designed PPH(People Per Hour) that is all they can do on the best of days. Fp or genie can not optimize the PPH in any way. Once the park hits the Guest saturation nothing can change it. The lines were long this summer with no Genie or FP , you seem to be saying those same days with genie the standby would be shorter? Nope, they will be the same long lines, but now the genie people will have some paid relief. We used to all get 3 ride relief, Free. No savvy user required. We all had 3 FP it was clearly stated how to use it and to say it was anymore difficult to understand or could be gamed any more than this new system is, well crazy.
Fp and Genie is not to shorten lines, Disney never said that and no civil engineer would say that either(unless the park had less guests than saturation on that day). It is nothing more than some people getting shorter lines on some rides. Say whatever you want about the new system, like or hate it, it is not going to make the standby lines any shorter. In year from now we aren't going to be saying wow the lines are so much shorter thank heavens for genie it made the lines shorter. It simply is not what Genie is for. If Disney thought Genie would shorten lines they would be advertising that fact and they don't because their engineers and imagineers know better.
Lines will always be dependent on total PPH for each park across all attractions and how many guest are in the park on any given day. This is why going in off season is always the best option for people concerned about line times. Genie in the off season very well may work as you state, that's the best we can hope for. We are stuck Genie and I am sure I will go and test it, but unless that 7AM thing changes it can never be better than the old system for me. And unless I can reserve my attractions ahead of time and not having the option to just walk to any express line I want to(like at Universal) I almost certainly won't ever book a Disney hotel again. I just cannot drop 600 a night in hopes I get up at 7am and snag what I want.
One more thing, I believe this Genie will sell out every day. Why some think less people will go for it because it's paid is mind boggling to me. People will pay in droves, the lines will be long we will pay more and without the benefit of planning. I can't wait until they state Dinner reservation can only be made day of at 7am.
