The towel arts were retired because people expected them every night in every room and not all housekeepers had the time or the skills to make them. So, guests would go to Disney World thinking there would be something i their room every night and when there wasn't, some of those guests would complain.
Unfortunately, it was the internet and the outflow of information that kind of doomed this art.
It's like a post I saw on Facebook - "the good thing about being over the age of 40 is that we did all our stupid stuff before the internet".