This company is not WORSE off, it's far better off. Disney is in a very healthy shape, a company that has no fundamental problems other than Genie+/Lightning Lanes. These brands are firing on all cylinders, but the press has a vested interest to put its thumb on the scale and knock the company down, a case of tall poppy syndrome write large. And shorts are artificially depressing the stock price, it should easily be 110 by now. The fact that shorts have 10 percent of the shares is despicable.
Remember, Murdoch could've easily told Comcast to pound sand and say, "We made our deal with Disney, we're not changing it, the bidding is closed." After all, Maker Studios refused to entertain Relativity Media's offer saying "We're gonna stick with Disney." A company can easily choose a lower bid. So all your point about that purchase points out that Disney could've easily waited it out for Murdoch to say "We're not changing horses."
Of course you can be a fan of Disney and still criticize it. That's what happened in the tail end of the Eisner era, and deservedly so. But this era is NOT like Eisner's, no matter how much you try to claim it is so. Iger has proven himself in his tenure, and he's still doing it now. You don't live to be 100 years old as a company if things are fundamentally wrong.
Let's also remember, even Eisner's end wasn't Disney's darkest hour. That was in between WWII and Disneyland, when Walt was still alive.
