My family likes to sit down on a curb along Main Street USA after Wishes, get a snack, and watch everyone leave. We're in no rush, so we don't like to battle the crowds, but I love watching families with little kids leave. There's the families where the kids are WIDE AWAKE and you can tell the parents just want to go to bed, there's the sleepwalking children (eyes are open but they are definitely not awake), or the kids slumped over in the strollers. Funnily enough, I don't see a lot of meltdowns that late at night.
But I also love ToT at night. You can usually walk straight to the boiler room (we go early May, no crowds!), and I just love it.