Oh, don't misunderstand me... I lost faith in Disney years ago.
Now all I have with current Disney products is hope, as in:
Hope they don't screw this up too badly.
Hope they deliver half of what they promise.
Yes, unfortunately I don't think Disney has the guts to present it's villains in a Villains Land remotely as scary as they appear on film.
Heck, Disney has been trying to give us back stories on some of these characters of late so that we have an "understanding" of why they are the way they are...
He certainly COULD have made Jungle Cruise a water ride where the boats bump into each other flume like.
But he didn't.
He used real boats.
And when you chip away at this stuff, a bit here and a bit there you lose the charm.
Hey, we don't need submarines.
We don't need a steamboat.
Do we really...
Death by a thousand cuts.
I'm sure Walt realized an automated system would work "better" than a skipper controlling the throttle.
But they chose not to go that route.
Because little things mattered.