It's difficult to comment on posts like this without coming across as a Disney-defending sycophant. But I think the phrase "familiarity breeds contempt" is often applicable to something like DVC. If you visit WDW for the first time--or once every 5 years--most everything is shiny and new. It's often difficult to identify the flaws. Visit regularly as a DVC owner and flaws are immediately identifiable.
If some problem occurs today--which wasn't encountered over the past 20 or 30 years--there's an inclination to think "wow, things are really going downhill!" In reality, housekeeping services, maintenance and technology weren't flawless in the 90s or 2000s either.
Are things universally worse today than 10 years ago? I dunno. Not many of us would visit often enough--or have the necessary perspective--to truly judge. When I run into a problem during a Disney vacation, It means *I* had a problem. It doesn't mean that thousands of others are experiencing the same problem, or that Disney is objectively worse than in the past.
I don't remember what I ate for lunch last Thursday, so don't ask me if I had problems with KTTW charging in 2005, or if we found an old sock under the bed in our villa, or if bell services was slow, or if the pool was cold in February...
If some problem occurs today--which wasn't encountered over the past 20 or 30 years--there's an inclination to think "wow, things are really going downhill!" In reality, housekeeping services, maintenance and technology weren't flawless in the 90s or 2000s either.
Are things universally worse today than 10 years ago? I dunno. Not many of us would visit often enough--or have the necessary perspective--to truly judge. When I run into a problem during a Disney vacation, It means *I* had a problem. It doesn't mean that thousands of others are experiencing the same problem, or that Disney is objectively worse than in the past.
I don't remember what I ate for lunch last Thursday, so don't ask me if I had problems with KTTW charging in 2005, or if we found an old sock under the bed in our villa, or if bell services was slow, or if the pool was cold in February...