Public company needing to create "shareholder value".
What WDW is doing now by getting rid of all these little touches, by creating generic rooms, etc., is turning their theme parks into regular amusement parks.
Thing is, only people who have been going to disney for a long time will notice these things and be bothered by them. The question is how much is too much for long time repeat visitors to be turned off enough to not visit. So far it seems like they've not reached that point. For new visitors, who won't know about these things and therefore can't "miss" them, it's a matter of whether or not people are finding their visits "magical" enough to become repeat visitors.
What WDW is doing now by getting rid of all these little touches, by creating generic rooms, etc., is turning their theme parks into regular amusement parks.
Thing is, only people who have been going to disney for a long time will notice these things and be bothered by them. The question is how much is too much for long time repeat visitors to be turned off enough to not visit. So far it seems like they've not reached that point. For new visitors, who won't know about these things and therefore can't "miss" them, it's a matter of whether or not people are finding their visits "magical" enough to become repeat visitors.