Well, in the case of PTN, I can't defend Disney at all, really.
Am I glad it's back? Yes. But there's really no excuse that they spent a sizeable amount on a new light parade that people really loved-only to reject it repeatedly for the beyond-tired MSEP and let their new showcase parade sit in a warehouse for reasons that were never explained and never made any sense.
The only real reason we got for that were unspecified "costuming issues"-issues that Disney absolutely had the resources to fix. And meanwhile, the HKDL version of the parade, identical save for *one float*, ran nightly until the pandemic hit.
The only reasonable conclusions that one can come to for PTN make Disney look anything but good.