It's not that they are using it better than me, I can use the system the same way as anyone else and I know how it works
It's that it requires you to be in the park all day, it requires a lot of money, it requires waking up early, it requires a non crowded park, it requires getting lucky with early return times, it requires constant refreshing, etc., etc., etc.
Please tell me you understand the difference?
My point is the system is so inefficient for the vast majority of guests unless you want to jump through hoops
I dont get up at 6:45 on vacation.....i dont go to the parks until the afternoon.......i dont like spending 10% more on the same vacation i had 2 years ago.............i dont like being on my phone all day............i like to choose return times.................i like not having overlapping rides with dining ressies.................i like taking my kids back to the pool mid day.............AND SO DO MOST OTHER PEOPLE
you can't do any of that and use Genie+ efficiently
While opinions can differ, and of course individual uses can vary, most of what you posted here are either wrong, of simply personal choices that have nothing to do with how good a system Genie+ is.
First, spending 10% more on the same vacation you had 2 years ago? Genie+ is roughly $20 per person. If your average Disney vacation, including tickets, lodging, food, merchandise, ect. was $200 per person per day, more power to you, but I don't see it. Complaints about general price increases have nothing to do with Genie+, so i am not going into that. Of course the $20 per person per day can skew % of daily spending if you are packing 6-7 people into a single hotel room, and if you are, God bless, but i would say your expense is an outlier as to average attendee demographics.
Second, if you don't get up at 6:45 on vacation and don't go to the parks until noon, and then taking your kids back to the pool mid day (so you're not getting to the park until after noon, but then going back to the pool mid day...when are you riding rides?) that's a personal choice. I don't get why anyone would want to spend the money to go on a Disney Vacation and not spend time at the parks, but that's not my problem...nor is it the problem of Genie+. You're intentionally electing to vacation at one of the most popular tourist destinations in the US if not the world, and then artificially limiting your time there.
Genie+ is a fair system, built to give everyone (save for early LL purchase for resort guests) the same access. It seems insane to complain about efficiency of a system, when by your own choice you are not using the system for what looks like more than half of the day. You don't get to complain about a system built around the park being open for 14 hours (Today MK 9am to 11PM) but you are choosing to only be at the park for what...get there at noon, leave to go back to pool mid day, and then come back, so lets say 6 hours of the day? The "problem" to the extent there is one, is not with the system, its with your personal choices and the amount of time you are giving yourself to use the system.
The system is set up to get as much or as little out of it AS YOU WANT. You can't complain that the tickets are all sold out for a concert and were bought by the people who got in line when the ticket office opened at 8am, when you stroll in to buy tickets at noon. FP days Genie+ days, or the covid time when neither were present, we were rope dropping and getting as much time in the park as possible. I want to be able to starting using Genie+ from the beginning of the day until we are walking back to the Contemporary with the park shut down. That might not be your type of vacation, which is fine. But I am going to be using Genie+ the entire time, taking selections as they become available. You can to if you want, but you are choosing not to. Just like I don't get to tell you when to wake up, you don't get to tell me when I can start making ride selections. The system is built to give everyone equal opportunity to use it. How efficiently you do so is up to you.
