I’m curious, how do you come to that conclusion? Personally, I think other factors are more relevant such as the recent price increases at all the sold out resorts (can’t imagine paying 200/pt at SSR and it seems like most buyers agree since they’ve barely had any sales since the price increase and they are starting to waive resales in the 118-125 range), no APs or other real perks to buy direct, and the overall economy.
I know others in this thread think that the strong RIV sales show that restrictions aren’t a deal breaker as people thought it would be. I’d argue that buyers are really just unaware of how serious of a risk it poses. New members are making up a majority of the purchases and based on the kinds of questions I see about joining DVC on FB and other places, a lot of these new members/buyers aren’t doing their homework/research about the basics of DVC, let alone the resale restrictions.