When you look at how time has adjusted, history is not as kind to companies of decades ago with their practices of not only hiring but "standards". It's something I think people tend to forget when looking so fondly back in the past. That isn't to say "oh look we can chew gum now" but more thinking more in depth about why hiring practices were changed over time and it's not necessarily for the worse. Meticulous takes on a new meaning when you realize that.
Reading articles of the past for instance on size restrictions for women to even be working at Disney World; one article from 2021 states "On-stage “hostesses” were available in sizes 6-14 for women from 5 feet 2 inches to 5 feet 10 inches in height, according to the 1971 brochure, while men’s “host” costumes had waist sizes of 28-40 inches and jacket sizes from 36-44."
A person from a 2014 article discussed their experiences working at
Disneyland in the 70s saying that while pregnant women could still work once they started showing and the outfit didn't fit you had to take a leave of unpaid absence. Also if you had any sort of physical impairment (they mentioned a wheelchair, eye patch, cast, etc) you could not be onstage and had to take a backstage position IF one existed at the time. Whether this was formal policy I don't know but that is them giving their experiences as an employee. They also point out that looks were the main factor in hiring practices which isn't a stretch as we know even today at DLR and WDW face characters for instance have stricter rules. Forget inclusiveness of disabilities in hiring practices.
I'm not sure we want to use past decades ago policies for benchmarks of today.