When people blindly buy into all of Bob's price hikes and wallet-pilfering schemes because "they have value to me", their effects and impacts become the norm and now what I used to enjoy while on vacation is irrevocably altered. So yes, some of YOUR vacation decisions DO have an impact on MY vacation, and I WILL judge those decisions thusly.
We thoroughly enjoyed the first 2-3 years of the Disney Dining Plan, before the sharp pencil people took over and neutered the plans and forced changes at restaurants, as mentioned by
@LuvtheGoof. And I can say with certainty that the iterations since roughly 2013-14 don't hold a candle (I could be off by a year or two), which is roughly when we stopped using dining plans because the value was gone. Prices went up across the board to make the dining plan look like "a good deal". Quality was reduced. Portions were reduced. Then some meals became 2 credit meals. Wanna bet even more meals will be 2 credits in 2024? Meal prices are higher, so a price hike is all but guaranteed. 2024 also brings the two snack credits down to one.
I literally cannot wait to read all of the complaints about ADR's becoming scare again once the dining plan is again available. Be careful what you wish you, because you just may get it.