It's so worth it if you DO get that reservation nobody else can. You'll forget all about the stress and madness and just think about the dates you got.
My friend was able to book a reservation for us using her Riv points and got a confirmation number. Hopefully Disney didn't lose the res!
Edited to add: I was able to add the reservation to my account with no issue (yet), it's still showing up on her DVC dashboard with the points deducted from her total, as well as a countdown...
My dashboard randomly will show our VDH reservation, I notice when it doesn't the 2 BWV waitlists we have don't show either. I'm walking away for the time being. I got our 7 month booking done for BLT and gonna count that as a win.
Edited to add: I was able to add the reservation to my account with no issue (yet), it's still showing up on her DVC dashboard with the points deducted from her total, as well as a countdown...
My experience:
5:30AM booking page goes live (only 30 minutes late)
Try a search for all villa types, which completes and shows NO availably across all dates and villa types
Search again, which gives error. Repeat search for an hour, and only receive error.
6:30AM booking page goes down, I give up