I suppose that could be an explanation. Then again, they seem to be doing the exact opposite with Star Wars Land. If they were really interested in shifting strategies to be more in line with Universal, I doubt we'd be seeing Iger talking at every public appearance about all the things coming. He even said it would be a while before they opened not matching Universal's way of announcing late.Do you not just think this might be them learning something from Universal? Everyone and their brother complained about the length of time from the NFL announcement & the actual implementation, and compared it to the time from announcement to implementation of HP. Maybe they've learned to keep things a little more under their hat, even though it's still being whispered.
Though definitely a plausible idea for sure.