No there doesn't. The Fact someone wants to pay more, or put in more work/effort to cut a line, doesn't make them a winner any more than someone who wants to stay off property or wants to take a spur of the moment trip to take advantage of rate discounts on travel, lodging, ect is a loser. Its a choice.
You can't put everyone in box seats for the Sox for the playoffs. Not everyone is going to get the same view, that doesn't mean the season ticket holders who get first choice at buying playoff tickets are winners while people who are sitting in the bleachers are losers.
True, you can't put everyone in box seats for the Sox playoffs. You also can't put 2/3 plus of people in the box seats, either.
Also, those people being in the box seats don't suddenly make any other seat in the stadium any worse. Those seats were always going to be what they were and anyone picking seats on the chart would have known exactly what they were getting the moment they forked over their card.
There is no one line to put everyone in front of. There are multiple lines, with people entering and exiting them at all different times throughout the day. Both the FP system and Genie+ allowed everyone to got to the front of some of the lines. If I got a FP for PotC on Monday at 1PM, and guest B couldn't get that exact ride/time FP, but got 7DM at that time, or got PotC on Tuesday instead, it makes our selections different. One isn't a winner and one isn't a looser.
You can act like all FP are created equal - that a FP for Pirates is on par with a FP for 7DM - we both know that's not true.
I know you're not stupid so why are you using that kind of argument?
As for your $1,000 option (a little steep but I get your point, make it more expense and more exclusive) it would be good for me personally as I would pay and it would benefit me and my family maybe even more than either FP or the current genie plus model. But that doesn't mean I think WDW should do it, or that it is in WDW best interest. I think they would take a huge PR hit, being viewed as elitest and favoring the rich (I can see DeSantis making it a direct mailing campaign now) and I don't think it would be profitable. Marketing to a larger consumer base with smaller individual transactions has been shown to create more revenue, especially when paired with online ap based purchasing. Its why many online games have moved to micro-transaction type models instead of larger up front game fees. WDW wants everyone purchasing its line skip. Many customers wouldn't lay out $1000 per family member when purchasing a trip. But they will pay 15 bucks on Monday, and then 10 for the LL, and then 15 on Tuesday because "I have already spent X, what's $15 more...and then $12 more...ect.
If you think $1000 is too much, how about $700? $500?
Universal can be as much as $300 but they're looking to buff the value of their higher end resorts more than they're looking to sell $300 express passes so it's sort of a different thing, there.
As for the PR hit, why would Disney care at this point? With Geni+ they're already being called elitists.
Are news articles going to start calling them extra elitists?
People are already saying they're favoring the rich. In your previous post where you are talking about choices, you pretty much agree they already are and that's their right, isn't it?
Speaking a little acerbically, maybe a move like this would help shake off some of the wheat from the chaff - get those people who were never going to spend the way Disney wanted them to to give up on their vacations before even starting them while also having the benefit of actually making a system where someone isn't supposed to feel good about being able to
snag that FP or LL for Philharmagic.
Or, they could build out capacity by creating a
lot more new desirable attractions so a system like the one they had and the one they have could work a little better.
Since that costs money they obviously don't want to spend, it feels like the restricted higher priced lighting lane option would be their best bet to me. I don't know what they'd have to price it to generate revenue close to what they're getting now from Genie+ but $1000 a day would make it a guest ratio of about 66:1 to what they are currently getting and that alone would have a HUGE impact on standby lines without them opening a single new attraction. No?
The irony is that many of the same people here who love to trot out their list of reasons why the old system was perfectly good (when what they couldn't bring themselves to say is "good for
them") would of course, be very unhappy with this new system, I'm sure because many would be finding themselves priced out of that option but those people are far from the majority of park goers - otherwise, Disney would have found a way to monetize the old system instead of scrapping it and rolling out something most of those people hate today.
The mental gymnasctis of these people trying to express moral outrage at a system like this because it doesn't benefit
them specifically the way the old system did would be entertaining.
... Plus, it would make standby lines faster.
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