That really makes so much more sense that putting them over in the middle of the buses. Never did understand that
It used to be in that same location, and it never worked well. First, it's in the handicapped parking area, and drivers with handicapped tags always parked in the spaces marked for Guest Drop Off. It also required cars to cross the stream of Guests walking at park close -- twice!
Then, when Uber & Lyft came along, the 2 or 3 spaces marked for Drop Off couldn't handle the volume, so they moved it to where 3 is on the map, and repurposed the area for electric car charging. But the new area turned out to be a mess because there was no clear traffic pattern.
Finally they moved it to center of the bus area, added benches, cones, and a cm to help organize things, and it's been working well ever since. Unless they've done some major reconfiguration of the old area, it's going to be a mess again.
I'm guessing Epcot got a new parking manager. At Disney, whenever a new manager takes over an area, he feels the need to change things around, for no reason other than to show upper management how smart he is, and generally ends up mucking everything up.