This is pretty cynical exploitation of COVID. You’re in the other thread, so you know that Chapek just announced they will keep daytime attendance at 100% and make no other capacity concessions for COVID - so the idea that the company going full speed ahead at the height of Delta announced a limited-capacity event when it seemed the pandemic was in hand strains credulity. Covid is merely being used as cover to cut hours and offerings.
You are in this thread, so you know that the main nonsense PR spin Disney is using to ditch the party this year AND next is the lackluster 50th. Gotta give people time to really enjoy the golden lawn gnomes.
Look, I’ll admit I’m wrong about the corporation if, in the next month, they either A) significantly limit daytime attendance or B) use their power responsibly by demanding guests be vaccinated. I think I’m pretty safe.
The reason this is a hot button issue is that a lot of people who love WDW think it is in a tailspin, with rising prices, declining quality, disappearing entertainment and service, and uninspiring new attractions. This party (and the SW hotel) take that tailspin to blatantly parodic depths, depths anyone on these boards six years ago would have found unimaginable even as a joke. And when people keep paying, it reinforces the nonsense and destroys any hope folks have of the tailspin reversing.
The people saying, “Sure, it’s diminished and overpriced, but I know what I’m getting and can afford it so shut up”… everyone of the curmudgeons was like that at one point. And as the decline continues, the point will come where it’s too dramatic to be accepted. And then you’ll look around for who could caused such damage to something you loved.
Some of us won't actually become like what you describe.
Some of us will just move on if we no longer enjoy WDW as we used to.