The thing there is "more than I'm willing to pay" is a different threshold for everyone.
Where do you tap out? $50 a day? $100? $200? $300? $1000?
Where does the person next to you tap out?
If they weren't to do it strictly by price but also highly limit the number
(I'm sure it would be both now that the "free" bandaid has already been yanked), how would that change things for you?
Say they sold them for
only $30 but you had to fight with 50k other people to try getting your hands on one of a few thousand for the day at 7am.
What if you don't end up being able to get it?
Then you're already there on your vacation and your only choice is to wait in lines.
... This is a huge mess Disney's created.
They spent the better part of a decade training guests and setting expectations only to pull the rug on all of that in the interest of making a quick buck.
I've never hidden that I wasn't a fan of the last system but the only people that seem to benefit from this change are the executives running Disney+ who get a little extra cash to burn through, now.
I certainly don't see how this is working better for
any guest.