Thank you so much for all of your input. I ended up booking Pop because we may not even have much time to enjoy the pool since we have a late breakfast in the Grandfloridian and are hoping to arrive at MK around 4pm!
We stayed at Pop for 7 nights in July. Overall, a really nice experience. We did have some hotel issues, but overall - nice. We've also stayed at AOA and that was a nice experience. I think that you'll be pleased with your Pop stay!!
It is very easy to walk over to AoA from Pop to take a look at all the cool theming - so we did that on our departure day from Pop. Fun to see it all but I didn't feel like I missed out at all.