LOL, well of course that's the point! The old rules allowed me to use late FP. I chose to use those rules to my advantage.
Why do people run to TSM first thing in the morning? Because they know the line will be shorter than middle of the day. Why do people visit Splash in the first hour of the park opening, and save Hall of Presidents for midday? Because it's the most efficient use of time.
I am pretty sure most people would prefer to maximize their time in the parks and tour in the most efficient way possible.
However, you seem to be saying that this is selfish or entitled or unfair behavior. That's where we'll disagree. Kelly had every opportunity I did to also use late FPs. So it was a perfectly even playing field.
If it is entitled, selfish, uncaring behavior to use FPs in the most efficient way possible, under rules that Disney allowed and were available for all guests to maxmize, then I stand convicted. I am a selfish, uncaring person who didn't bother herself about the fact that some people would choose not to use late FPs. I figured if they wanted to, they could.
All that said... in actuality the benefit of the late FP rules to me personally was always more about flexibility. I'd wager that in practice, hanging onto late FPs hurt me more than helped me, from the perspective of efficient touring. Why? Because I've only ever gone in the slow season, when FPs usually weren't necessary anyway... and hanging onto them for later sometimes meant I never even used the FP line at all--either because I never got back to the attraction, or because when I did go back, the standby line was short that FP wasn't necessary.
This happened to us numerous times last trip... got four FP for Star Tours, came back past the return window. Found a standby line with a 2-minute wait. (Posted 20 minutes.) We rode twice with our (late! oh the horrors!) FPs, then rode a third time standby. Our standby wait was equal to or shorter than our FP waits, there was simply no reason to use the FPs other than we had them in our fists. We actually would have benefited more using them earlier in the day, when the line was longer.
Then there was Jungle Cruise. We got FPs late morning, when the standby line was 40 minutes or so. The FP window was for middle of the day, during the height of the crowds. But we didn't use them then... we took an afternoon break and came back in the evening. When we went to Jungle Cruise, they had closed the FP line because it just wasn't needed. We got right onto the boat. Would have been more advantageous to us to use the FPs on time... but we didn't, so someone else benefited middday.
Or try Everest. I got two FPs just in case my dd was brave enough to ride. I knew we didn't have to make a particular window, so figured I'd hang onto them all afternoon until she decided if she wanted to try it. By the time she made her decision, it was nearly 5:00 pm and there was practically no standby line anyway. And in the end... she decided against riding anyway... so again both the standby and FP lines got to move 2-people faster than it would have if we'd shown up during our window.
Or there was the time in September, when we had Soarin' FPs that were past the window. We'd hung onto them for a final ride exiting the park. But when late afternoon came and we were ready to leave, we were so tired we didn't even want one last ride. So we handed them to people just entering the park, explaining that they were good the entire rest of the day. So grabbing three FPs early in the day, and hanging onto them for later, enabled folks who entered long after Soarin' FPs were gone to get on the ride with a minimal wait. Clearly I was trying to get something over on folks with that one, taking the time to let them know about the rules!
But you're right. Me using late FPs in January and September was horribly inconvenient to others. It was all about maximizing our time at the expense of others.
Now you just have to learn to maximize your time with FP enforcement. And everyone will actually being on a level playing field...that's all. You yourself said you had to explain the "rule" to others when giving away fast passes.
