I personally wish there were more animatronic-focused rides and less screen-based, but that's just a personal preference.
Given the amount of space to work with, I would focus on adding experiences (like Rat or Tron), rather than figuring out which current attraction needs to be torn down and replaced (like GMR or UoE). It seems that a lot of rides with high capacity get bad raps because there isn't much of a line and it seems like the modern solution is to replace a 2000 rider per hour ride with a 1000 per hour capacity ride and high five each other because the new ride always has an hour wait (and is a shorter experience when you finish navigating the line to boot!).
Also, I would stop shutting down large portions of parks with no real plans to replace with anything engaging (looking at you Epcot). I know they did immediate work replacing UoE and are finally doing something with WoL, but when I went back a couple of years ago, it felt like a going out of business shopping mall so much was closed down. I walked in and you've got Communicore/Innoventions that was largely closed off, or unused, or replaced with photo ops, then left to UoE closed behind construction walls, WoL closed, then a little further Odyssey was closed, then loop over to Imagination where the entire top floor was closed off, to the Land where Circle of Life closed, then to the Seas where, while not closed, they removed a lot of elements (hydrolators, and covering much/most of the aquarium views from the ride). Then at Magic Kingdom Stitch is in a prime location and who knows when/if it will ever revert back to something other than a photo op. Hollywood Studios has its own issues, but at least they have tended to start working on replacements fairly quickly when they've shut things down.
Given the amount of space to work with, I would focus on adding experiences (like Rat or Tron), rather than figuring out which current attraction needs to be torn down and replaced (like GMR or UoE). It seems that a lot of rides with high capacity get bad raps because there isn't much of a line and it seems like the modern solution is to replace a 2000 rider per hour ride with a 1000 per hour capacity ride and high five each other because the new ride always has an hour wait (and is a shorter experience when you finish navigating the line to boot!).
Also, I would stop shutting down large portions of parks with no real plans to replace with anything engaging (looking at you Epcot). I know they did immediate work replacing UoE and are finally doing something with WoL, but when I went back a couple of years ago, it felt like a going out of business shopping mall so much was closed down. I walked in and you've got Communicore/Innoventions that was largely closed off, or unused, or replaced with photo ops, then left to UoE closed behind construction walls, WoL closed, then a little further Odyssey was closed, then loop over to Imagination where the entire top floor was closed off, to the Land where Circle of Life closed, then to the Seas where, while not closed, they removed a lot of elements (hydrolators, and covering much/most of the aquarium views from the ride). Then at Magic Kingdom Stitch is in a prime location and who knows when/if it will ever revert back to something other than a photo op. Hollywood Studios has its own issues, but at least they have tended to start working on replacements fairly quickly when they've shut things down.
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I was going to wait to buy until closer to actual trip, but once I had the money I really wanted those passes "In hand" knowing the general trend of price increases without much predictability. Paid off, if i didn't, AP prices probably wouldn't have gone up, so its all my fault I guess. 
