We've done F&W the last 2 years, will be doing it again this year. We've seen a lot of happy folks, some due to alcohol I'm sure, but none who were belligerent or bad drunks, or people who I'd be uncomfortable to be around. I'm not sure why other people would either... Honestly, in terms of brutal, rude, non-family-friendly behavior, it's always the stone cold sobers who are guilty of acting in a way that I'd be ashamed of.
Anytime I've seen somebody acting like a brat (pushing through crowds, yelling at CMs, or mob mentality behavior), it's been people who were not only old enough, but sober enough, to know the tantrum they're putting on over their expired FP, their long wait for TSM, the ride breakdown on ToT, the impossible-to-get walk-in to BOG, the "must have pin" that's for the AP/Visa/D23 folks only, the lame Vinylmation they got from the mystery box, and on and on and on... Is completely inappropriate and thoroughly ill-suited for a children's park.
I think blaming alcohol is the easy answer to something that isn't really a problem, honestly. I mean, complaining about loud people and spilled drinks and how that's so intimidating that you can't bring your family to EPCOT? REALLY? We're talking about EPCOT, a Disney property, not a dark alley in Amsterdam. Considering the number of popcorn confetti explosions, dropped cups, and loud people I see at MK, I'd say that it's more reasonable to say that it's all the price of being at a major theme park and not the penalty of too much alcohol by a large percentage of folks at the park.
Like I said, having been to F&W, I've seen people who've had too much to drink and are extremely jovial as a result and I've seen the rude, condescending looks, the judgmental attitude, and the high-and-mighty "I can't believe you're drunk at a children's park..." But you know, it's not just for kids, especially EPCOT. And even in all of that, I've never seen anything other then the occasional happy tipsy folks, at night. No throwing up in bushes, no fights, no anything that's disrespectful, horrible, scarring, or inappropriate. Nothing to run out of the park with the family as a result of what's going on.
I think people just go in assuming the worst and are happy at maintaining that assumption so they have something to complain about on the bus and on forums when they get home. I remember a lady making a really rude, loud comment to me at EPCOT on the presumption I was drunk... It had poured rain and my long dress had gotten soaked, so it got super heavy, stretched out, and I was tripping all over it while trying to rush to the exit at closing. I was holding my other half's hand and laughing, trying to manage my dress, and laughing every time I stumbled over it. The lady behind me just yells not at me, but certainly with the intent of me hearing it "Oh my GOD... What is WRONG with a woman who'd go in front of families to get fall down drunk? What is wrong with people these days? PEOPLE need to remember that there are FAMILIES here... What a shame... One person ruins the experience for everybody..." Now, I hadn't had a drop to drink that evening, or that trip for that matter, and didn't drink at all at the time due to a medication/heart condition. But, oh my goodness, you trip all over your dress and laugh about it, suddenly you're a drunken floozy who gets sloshed to the detriment of children.
I mean obviously, two adults at Disney with no children? OBVIOUSLY we were going to get hammered... LoL!
Even then, if I had been drunk, which I certainly was not, is seeing somebody who's tipsy and laughing over tripping really the end of the world? Is that traumatizing? Worth fleeing the park over? No. Somebody is enjoying their vacation, just as you are, and they're not hurting anything or anybody. Why is it worth getting in a twist over?