I doubt Josh even knows that it changed. Or that it may look weird to 2024 paying audiences.
Josh is merely a Pepsodent Smile in an empty suit at this point, and he apparently knows very little about the Parks.
You are right, Soarin' Over California doesn't really make sense at EPCOT. But then, California is really the only state where you could do this sort of film and get that huge range of geography and topography and climate and icons, from man made to God made, all in one state. With maybe a lesser version available for the other West Coast states of Oregon or Washington.
But anywhere east of the Rockies isn't going to be able to offer anything close to that while staying within the same state.
And Soarin' Over Florida would just be a short film of pancake-flat views that look far less impressive from the air than they do from the ground.
Until Disney/WDI actually does a full Soarin' Over America, the next best thing is Soarin' Over California. And I say that as a long-term Californian who had to abandon that state last year because it's become so unbearable to live in.
Disney needs to step up, spend some of the cash they've been wasting on their giant box office flops all year, and film a new Soarin' Over America film for both Epcot and DCA. A Soarin' film of the USA would be accepted wildly and willingly by the paying audiences in both parks, I am sure.
