Just completed a week at the GF villas after a 10 year stretch of no Disney. Great experience overall. We liked the convenience of the Monorail line to two parks and kids loved the pools. The one negative I would say is the distance from the Villas building to the dining and pool areas. It is basically the furthest building everything. With small children it would be nice to be closer. Now that we are planning our next stay (and looking into buying a contract as we borrowed family points for the stay) what other resorts should we consider.
In my mind the GF villas building is the closest building to the beach pool & splash area & the
DVC BPK building is the closest to the courtyard pool

. The spacious GF grounds are its greatest appeal IMO, but the result is the amenities are spread out. Of course, someone staying at what I think of as the long hall resorts like Kidani or BWV if they are assigned a villa in the far reaches of the hotel may have very long hikes to get to the amenities but their hike will be inside a building.
IME, a lot of Disney resorts involve a lot of walking, some are so big that they have internal bus service.
There are different ‘types’ of DVC resorts & each have pluses & minuses.
You have the original design w/ several buildings scattered over a large piece of land - OKW & later SSR. You likely don’t want one of those.
The one building w/ really long halls - BWV & AKV Kidani. Not sure these fit your criteria either.
The tuck it into wherever it fits on the grounds of an existing resort - BC, BRV, VGF villas building, Poly Tower. Maybe one of these work depending on where they were tucked in?
There’s the convert existing hotel rooms to DVC & maybe add point hungry bungalows or cabins - Poly, CCV, AKV Jambo, VGF BPK. The original Poly is all longhouses, CCV & Jambo are both pretty big buildings.
Finally there’s the towers - BLT, Riviera. BLT’s pool is unimpressive & for food/monorail you need to walk over to the contemporary. I’ve not stayed there, but Riviera sounds like it’s the most compact w/ amenities in situ, so it might work if you like the Skyliner. Personally, given the resale restrictions & relatively low prices Riviera commands on the resale market, I’d stay there to make sure it was ‘the one’ before I bought though.