Focused on checking Smuggler's Run return times this morning. In HS, with Genie+, most people will go for SDD as their first G+ at 7am, and might be looking for Smuggler's next as it seems to be the 2nd most popular G+ selection in the park. Of course, with the current G+ rules, unless you get a SDD return time in the 9am-11am range, you can't make your second G+ selection for Smuggler's until 11am at which point, it seems by the return times below, will be later afternoon or even later depending on the crowd level. And that means waiting another 2 hours until at least 1pm before you can make your next G+ selection. So going for the SDD/Smuggler's combo really effects things if you don't plan to stay in HS all day.
I started looking at Smuggler's around 9:20am and these are the return times offered, checking every 5-10 minutes: 2:35pm, 11:55am, 2:50pm, 2:35pm, 11:50am, 2:40pm, 3:00pm, 1:25pm, 3:00pm. Obviously the overall pattern is 2:35 progressing to 3pm, with a whole lot of random earlier times mixed in due to cancellations (I assume).
It will be interesting to see how entities like Touring Plans that scrape published wait times (and previously in the older days, scraped and tracked published FP return times) handle this aspect of the Genie+ system. It's like a combination of paper FP (but restrained by the 2 hour rule and the no re-ride rule), and then mixed in with the modern fact of digital cancellations (like FP+) which introduces the idea of the FP+ hack of constantly refreshing to see what popped up. Also makes it frustrating that you can't swap your G+ for another in one action, but instead have to cancel the current one and then replace it with another.
