Yeah, I feel like in the old days maybe I would look at 60 days out but I definitely wasn't camping things at 3am and there was plenty of stuff available to book closer to the trip. Building on your point about the mobile ordering fiascos causing people to more aggressively book dining still, there was also the fact that so many places were closed still in the first couple months so food overall was harder to come by.
My one hope is that now that the annual passes are back and people are starting to go (I assume) more frequently, the pent-up demand from the parks being closed for a year and a half will slowly peter out and the food scarcity anxiety will die down, and people won't feel like they need to hyperplan their trips as much. I know personally, the first couple trips we did, I booked a lot of dining reservations, both out of fear from the early post-pandemic days and also because I hadn't eaten at these places in so long. For our next trip, I'm going more minimal - there are a lot of places I don't need to eat at every time, and now that I've eaten at them somewhat recently, I'm set for awhile. I'm hoping eventually others will feel the same and things will settle down. But we'll see...
But, I got more or less the time for BB I wanted so all's well that ends well 
Now about that Trader Sam's...
