At this point, I'll believe Paint the Night has returned the minute it sets foot on the parade route and not a second before. It's mostly been a lot of false hope. There was a thread on the WDW side of the board that speculated that PTN would be coming to WDW years ago, and eventually they had to change the title to "Paint the Night isn't coming to WDW. Stop bumping this." As much as this particular thread isn't that long, I almost sort of wonder if we should put some sort of moratorium on the subject unless there's concrete proof-100% infallible concrete proof-before people speculate with abandon.
MSEP needs to "glow away" into a dumpster, so if WDW's inferior maintenance is what finally gets it there, I suppose that's what happens.