Ugh.
Like FLE; don't like FLE; think it's only so-so. It just an opinion. Think whatever you like.
But stop calling FLE "just a little add-on". With a rumored budget of $400M, it's a major capex even for a company like Disney. It's another cruise ship. It's another Avengers movie. It's big money for Disney. They take investing their company's capital extremely seriously. Iger obsesses over it, which is why the that 8 years under him have been probably the worst 8 years for investment at WDW. WDW used to add major theme parks every 8-to-10 years (1971, 1982, 1989, 1998). Now WDW is floundering because the powers that be can't figure out a WDW investment strategy with a satisfactory ROI. TWDC is expecting FLE to return big money. It's not just a little add-on.
I think people expected way too much from the FLE. If you compare it to Harry Potter, it fails miserably.
If you think of it as just a little add-on with a dark omnimover ride and a pretty restaurant, you can say, "Yes, this is great." I am extremely happy with the LM ride! It's great! ...for what it is.
It's not an e-ticket ride. The FLE is not going to transport you to another world.
$400,000,000.00 is a crazy amount of money, but if it were 400 billion, it wouldn't change what we have, which is (IMO, anyway) a little add-on. An expansion of Fantasyland, with one new dark ride...and, eventually (at some point), a kiddie coaster.
I don't think Disney thought that a dark ride and a kiddie coaster would cause people to flock to Florida. Oh, and another Dumbo spinner. I forgot that. Still, I don't think anyone at Disney thought that this would be a huge deal.
I am becoming aware of how much money Disney wastes, but that doesn't change what we experience.
If you go into the FLE expecting big, amazing things, you'll likely be disappointed. If you go in expecting to see something new and ride an Ariel dark ride, you'll likely be very happy. I am very happy with that ride and think it gets dumped on for no good reason other than people were expecting more.
That's MHO.