I hated feeling locked into the BWV for every Disney trip. I wanted to stay at the other Deluxe hotels-POLY, YC, BC, GF. I felt "trapped" almost by
DVC. I know some people may find this odd. We ate Dinner at the POLY during our last DVC trip (Oct 06) and I was depressed. My son and daughter were asking if we could stay here next trip (they don't understand the whole DVC point thing). I told them that "no, it's not a DVC resort and not the best/smartest use of our points." I felt really upset by this. I WANT to be able to stay at the POLY for our next trip, or anywhere else for that matter. The GF is not my top 3 resorts, but I may want to stay there SOMEDAY. With DVC I never would, ever.
We are DVC owners but our 2 trips prior to purchasing we stayed at the Poly Concierge building. We love it there, and have stayed there since being DVC members using our pts., I am not sure how many points you had, but that was one thing that appealed to us when we purchased that we could still stay at the deluxe resorts if we wanted.
PS I feel the same way as you do about GF, I have no great desire to stay there, prefer the poly and looking across at the GF!