Got home a few hours ago, and here's the rest of the trip update:
After lunch at BoG on Wednesday, we decided we'd like a mid-afternoon snack, since we had EMH until 1am. I looked on the app at around 1pm, and booked an ADR at LTT for Ooey Gooey Toffee Cake at 2:50pm.
Thursday (yesterday) was our Hollywood Studios day, so I got on the app after waking up and getting ready to go. Booked a noon reservation for our party of 4 at Sci-Fi, then a 5:55 reservation at 50's Prime Time. Both reservations booked at prime times, at very busy restaurants, same day in the span of 2 or 3 minutes.
Got up this morning on check out day, and checked the app at around 6:45. There's an 8:00 'Ohana (yet another supposedly impossible to get, prime-time reservation available), but we don't have time to make it, since the rest of the bunch is still asleep. So, I picked up a 9:15 Whispering Canyon.
So, to recap, we made zero reservations more than a day in advance, and we ate at:
Sanaa at a prime dinner time
Rainforest Cafe (AK) at a prime dinner time
Via Napoli at a prime dinner time
BoG at a prime lunch time
Sci-Fi at a prime lunch time
50's Prime Time at a prime dinner time
Passed on an 'Ohana breakfast at a prime breakfast time
Whispering Canyon at a prime breakfast time, although it's not a highly coveted ADR and not very hard to get. That said, I much prefer it to the breakfast at 'Ohana...the biscuits and gravy at WC are outstanding.
We've agreed that we LOVED the freedom, and probably ate at more TS restaurants than we originally planned on eating at simply because so many reservations were available. We had no problems eating where we wanted to eat, when we wanted to eat there.
I get it that there are many out there who won't allow themselves to do a non-plan like this, and that's fine. Do what makes you happy. But, although there are many who will express anxiety over it, those people are not what this thread is about. This thread is about the ability to eat where you want to eat, without having to be up at the crack of dawn 6 months ahead of time, or trying to plan out every minute of your vacation days, weeks, and months ahead. We didn't even decide which park we were doing until the day before, other than AK (due to having a DVC preview of Pandora scheduled for that day).
Good luck however you decide to do it.