I have been pretty vocal, nomorethan8, about the Reflections design in the thread that's on the DIS Rumors board.
It was a beautiful design in-and-of-itself that was TOTALLY wrong to be plopped so close to Fort Wilderness. Fort Wilderness is one of the original WDW resorts. It's welcomed campers and cabin guests for going on 50 years now. It has built a powerful "brand" of its own in the rv'ing community as among the premier destinations for that group.
My contention on the Rumors thread was to fully EMBRACE the Fort Wilderness vibe and design a resort that compliments or augments what you already have in a frontier theme. Here was my thinking: as much as we would like to see FW expanded with more sites, maybe some pull-throughs, it is never going to happen. The Disney mentality is "build up, build big, charge a lot". Ground level sites don't match that. But you have 50 years worth of guests with lots of memories and past trips to the Fort who are getting older. And younger families that might have come to the Fort for Trails End dinner or HDDR, to see/ride horses, to roast marshmallows and sing along with Chip & Dale and say to themselves: "we're not a camping family but we sure like it over here".
What came next after the frontier was settled with forts, log cabins, coonskin caps and leather chaps/mocassins? A civilized town with a country store, a hotel, an trading company (that took the gold or animal furs to market), a sheriff with a small jail, a saloon or two, a diner, a telegraph office, a stagecoach office, and more. (not gonna attempt to bring a train station into the picture - that one still hurts too much). I propose reusing the "Buffalo Junction" name (which was a name/project floated by Disney a few decades ago for the space between WL and FW). And by fully embracing the Fort vibe, keep a lazy river in the pool/recreation plan and call it "River Country" again. Market it as the "Fort Wilderness DVC" and I think it would be a strong marketing angle.
I'm not going to get into DVC and their discussion about newer resorts not being able to trade/book back into their existing DVC resorts. I'm just simply saying there is a ready made market for folks who are older and maybe even packing/driving/setting up the rv is more work than it used to be. And younger folks who want to buy DVC and enjoy the outdoor/frontier/friendly camper vibe. That's your target buyer audience for a DVC next to Fort Wilderness.
So rather than ignore the Fort Wilderness theme 20 feet away from the project, embrace it. Advance it about 40 years in time from the rough western frontier (camping) to a more modern civilized frontier town with building fronts (DVC) of the type mentioned above. I think we all believe Disney will build something on that property SOME DAY and will include the cottages along the lake side. Therefore the best we can hope for is to have something that is similar/related/extended from the Fort Wilderness brand/theme.
Build "Buffalo Junction" and people will buy it. That's my opinion since you asked - it's worth what you paid for it.
Bama Ed
PS - you know Disney would want a multi-story property and I don't recall too many 5 story saloons in the old Clint Eastwood spaghetti westerns. But that would be for the architects and designers to figure out.