Yes, but I am referring more to the fact that single day guests get treated as superior simply because they spend more money in short bursts. Passholders commit a few thousand each year while day guests spend a fraction of that. Honestly passholder treatment has declined over the course of 20 years.
Well . . . day guests (at least the ones who stay close to a week, not literal one-day guests) tend to spend the same or more than AP's do in a year, but in a much more concentrated period of time. And really, the treatment isn't SO different - they offer mild advantages on occassion, which is pretty reasonable.
I'm an AP and I'd love more perks, but I understand the impulse to offer higher value to guests staying on property for 5-7 days and buying multiple Park Hoppers for each day over the guests who opt in on a lower lump-sum and spend less money on average over the course of a full year while taking up as much space as the out-of-towner.
Doesn't mean they can't do better by their APers, and I'll agree treatment has declined, but I don't think that's unique to us AP's - it's declined across the board. But we're really not the bread and butter many of us like to believe we are. For the most part we're savvy loyalists who actually spend less money over 52 weeks than many "typical" guests spend in 1.
EDITED To Add: Think of it this way - if the average literal One-Day guest spends, say, $300 on themselves in that one day, the average Annual Passholder spends nowhere near that. So do you want your days to be loaded with guests paying $300 to be there (of which there mostly seems to be no short supply), or full of guests who each spend, like, $50 while they're in the park? Like I said, they take up the same space - they're both paying for the right to be there and deserve to get their money's worth, but it makes sense that you'd make the effort to incentivize one more than the other.