I am getting caught up with this one, so I am replying to a bunch of different people. Please forgive my late entry in this thread.
The only visual I think the skyliner has an issue with is Carribean Beach. It alters the scale and feel of the resort.
Funny. I actually feel the opposite. Far and away, my favorite portion of the Skyliner route is over Caribbean Beach. I think it adds a great kinetic energy and it also makes the resort feel more cohesive and less spread out. But each to his own!
I think that the next step would be to get a fleet of fully electric and fully autonomous Magic Busses. It would be cool if they could design them with an entrance side and an exit side, and have guests get on and off from continuously moving floors, and the busses never had to come to a stop when loading and unloading.
Buses can certainly have a very high capacity. The urban Bus Rapid Transit systems with platform level boarding, offboard fare collection, and adequate operations can transport as many people over a given distance as all but the highest capacity metro rail systems (the Bogota BRT system carries up to 40,000 people per hour per direction) albeit with much wider right-of-way requirements and higher labor costs if drivers are used.
But a common misconception is that a continuously moving loading system has a higher capacity than a stationary loading system. In fact, it is typically the opposite, outside of a fairly narrow range of conditions.
For a thought experiment, imagine that the capacity of a single theater of the Carousel of Progress is 500 people. If the theater rotates every 5 minutes, the hourly capacity would be 6,000 people per hour. And if the number of people attempting to ride is less than 6,000 people per hour and they arrive at an even pace, the average wait would be 2.5 minutes.
If the theater had twice as many seats, it would have an hourly capacity of 12,000, with the same average wait. And so on.
Eventually, if you keep adding seats, you would run into the problem of not enough doors to get people seated in time. So the limiting factor for capacity of a vehicle that stops to board is door width.
As it turns out, for a continuously loading system like Skyliner or Peoplemover, the limiting factor is also door width. However, when a vehicle is moving, the door width limitation is complicated by the transfer, which generally requires a narrow threshold, so that unsteady riders can right themselves, or at least be warned of the transition to the moving floor.
So no matter how many seats you add inside the cabin, you will eventually run out of door space or will not have a wide enough moving sidewalk.
Because of this, the actual maximum capacity of a continuously moving vehicle is probably somewhere around wice the capacity of Spaceship Earth, maybe around 6,000 people per hour. Once the demand exceeds that number, the average wait would raise from a few seconds to something much higher than 2.5 minutes, the shortest possible average wait of a system that departs every 5 minutes.
But the advantage of stationary loading is theoretically even greater. Carousel of Progress may dispatch every 5 minutes, but some metro systems can dispatch as frequently as every 70 seconds. So the average wait can actually be reduced to something like 35 seconds!
If they were going to do something, I think the most logical would be DHS (heading south) - > turn station -> Blizzard Beach/Winter Summerland. Then have Blizzard Beach act as a hub (like Caribbean Beach) with one line going north to Coronado and one going west to DAK. Could even go all out and put some sort of station among the All Star resorts to go to Blizzard Beach as well.
I created a transportation model of WDW a few years back with a layout like this, and I found that the trip demand generated from the All Star Resorts would be so great that it would overwhelm a monorail system (with a capacity of around 19,000 people per hour per direction) at peak hours! Skyliner has a much lower maximum theoretical capacity. In fact, that is greater than the hourly ride (excluding shows) capacity at DHS!
I'd much rather be waiting for a bus (when you can do things like go to the bathroom or really anything else you want) than spend that time stuck in a vehicle where you have no options to do anything, unless you get off at one of the earlier stops.
As you implied, your preferences are your own. And that is totally fine. But in general, studies show that the vast majority of transit riders have the opposite preference. Time spent waiting for the ride is qualitatively more burdensome than time spent moving, all else equal for most riders.
