Tinfoil hat securely on my head -
It makes you wonder the forecasts (hah, forecasts from Iger) about lower attendance, was it put out there for the public to say, "Hey Iger said attendance is down so we should go RIGHT NOW while its less crowded"
Its either that or all the broken attractions and the totally broken Lighting Lane system making it feel crowded.
Removing non-attraction things to do tends to make the walkways more full, as does the randomness of reserving ride times instead of focusing your time on a specific land, for MK purposes, and instead zig-zagging across the park (trust me, we did plenty of this in the paper FP days as well and it irritated us then, too), which was never the intent.