All around, WDW of today = guests are more often pitted against one another.
Entering a park can be particularly frustrating if you happen to get in the slow/stuck line. While CM's try to keep people from running at rope drop, there are plenty of spots/times around WDW where walking a little faster or passing just a few people = a big time savings.
At rope drop, the wait for FoP can go from zero to 2hours in mere seconds.
Part of the me-first attitude is baked into all theme park touring, but some of WDW's practices exacerbate the problem.
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In the days of paper FP, we often gave them away to strangers, and strangers sometimes gave them to us, that was fun.