If they're going to implement a system like this, it needs to be intuitive and easy to use. For ALL levels of comfort with technology.
It's as easy and intuitive as it gets.
Guests pick 3 "experiences" and have 4 automatic choices, and a vast majority of guests will be pleased with one of the 4 automatic selections and won't feel the need to tweak them (even though they can)
Q : Which kind of guests need to tweak the FP+ selections ?
A : Planners.
The irony is that planners need a higher level of complexity from the application.
A "regular" guest will just take whatever the application/MDX give them.
These regular guests will find it way too complex to choose one attraction at a time, with its own time window. Just by the mere fact that it would require a lot of clicking on "next" buttons. With too many opportunities for "oops, there was a problem" nag screens
there would be so many more steps for a one by one selection that it might be more intuitive (more straightforward) but so time consuming that many guests would find it impracticlal.
Those of us who plan need a level of complexity (tweaking) that is not required (desirable) by the vast majority of users.
In a sense, we, the planners, are "power users". We need more functions from the app/MDX than the average user.
But from the "average user" standpoint, the app would become less intuitive and harder to use if it was designed for us, power users.
Think of FP+/MDX as your TV's remote control.
The system as it is now will only offer 5 buttons
- power on/off
- channel up/down
- volume up/down
That will be enough for the vast majority of users for the everyday life.
There will be a small quantity of users who will need to go through the menus and tweak many things and who will cry when they need to push a button on the side of the TV set to access the menu and who will say it would be so much easier if all the functions were accessible from the remote.
And it's true, it would be so much easier and intuitive
But think of the bewildered look on grandpa's face when you give him a 100+ buttons remote ...
A good system is a system that is designed for it's target audience.
Power users will need to learn the litteracy required to tweak the system.
For the vast majority of MDX users (we're not among them, we're planners) FP+ selection is as easy as it gets.
To make it any easier would imply asking someone to do it for you (like a CM at check in for example)