I can understand the sentiment, but I'd like to add this final 2 cents...
I think perhaps it's time for a Value DVC. Take what was supposed to be the second half of Pop Century, and repurpose it as all family suites. Maybe set them up comparable to the Fort Wilderness layout - each bedroom has a queen sized bed and bunk beds, plus a sleeper sofa and sleeper chair. A kitchenette and 2 bathrooms. No studios, no 2 bedrooms, no "grand villas." Solely 1BR/2BA units, in a no-frills (or fewer-frills) location, no sitdown restaurant, no in-room laundry, nothing really beyond the typical Value resort amenities - food court, pools, a bar, an arcade - but still on property and access to WDW transportation.
Now, price those units, point-wise or ever-so-slightly higher, to a studio at Old Key West, or the Value studios at the AKV. And let new members buy-in (but only at these particular suites) with a minimum of 100 points.
For people who say "we'd love to join but it's a little out of our price range," you can now join at about 1/3 off the price of buying into any of the newer villas. And for people who are already DVC members, it affords us an option of stretching our vacations out a bit - perhaps, if you book a vacation one year and you have some extra points, maybe, instead of banking those points, you'll have enough to spend a few extra nights on-property, but at the Value Suite. I have 175 points a year, but we'll probably be banking or borrowing every other year, maybe doing 2 trips every 3 years - 2 years on, 1 year off - to take advantage of annual passes. OR we could do a 2 week blowout every 2 years, with one week in a Value Suite and 1 week in a 1 BR villa elsewhere on property. OR if in the future we wanted to bring some of our daughter's friends or cousins with us, and planned to just hit parks from dawn to dusk and needed fewer amenities, this would be a superb option. Think about people who joined when they were newlyweds, thinking they'd have 1 or 2 kids, and now they have 3 or 4, making most studios or 1 BRs unfeasible, but at the same time, the point values for 2BR makes their trips shorter than they'd like. Here are suites that could conceivably sleep 7. It wouldn't be my first choice most trips, but for those occasions where we need to stretch our use of points, it'd be a great option.
That's my suggestion du jour. Feel free to rip it a new one.
