Lol this meeting must have been wild...
"Hey team... the hallway after the pre-show narrows way too quickly and it leads to major crowding and safety issues. What should we do to fix that?"
"How about we add in stanchions to make it even more narrow and difficult!"
"Perfect! And just for fun...
The two tracks don't really intersect, so it wouldn't be an issue. There have been a handful of situations, including one very serious one, of falling objects from the top of the ride striking riders below. The incidents typically happen on the same side of the track though.
LLs, in general, are way more pleasurable now. The only time they're really backed up seems to be if a major attraction has an unexpected downtime, it can throw off the algorithm for sometime thereafter.
You also get "deceiving" Lightning Lanes quite often, where some family is trying to tap...
They seem so weirdly adverse to having any late night options. We were shocked on a recent trip that DS closes at 11:30, even on weekends. Pre-COVID Raglan and Edison were open til 1ish. Boathouse was serving food until midnight.
Except that from Disney's perspective, waiting for your DAS time in a shop or quiet area is you waiting in a standby line. It's why time you must wait is roughly equivalent to the the current standby wait.
Preventing the DAS user from also using the LL would be seen as discriminatory because...
You get one ride on Tron, one on Tiana's and two rides on Guardians. Everything else offers re-rides, though frustratingly you have to sit through all the pre-shows every time. That's a big ask for a $750/hour tour - especially when you basically get the same thing (minus the car and fireworks...
Poor Keys to the Kingdom tour guides gonna have to learn a new reconned story to tell their tour guests, as the current one tells them how Rivers of America is a journey through time and space, heading west from New England (Mansion), Philly, through the old west and starting in the 1700s at...
I dunno. The great Imagineering purge of 2019/2020 really got rid of so much of the institutional memory of how to design things based on story and theme, rather than based on IP.
WDW uses their saloon, Diamond Horseshoe, as a restaurant. It's the same menu as Liberty Tree Tavern next door. However, there's zero entertainment and hasn't been for many years.