I haven't finished reading all 85 pages of this thread, but a few comments, questions and concerns:
I have read a lot of comments that people had to plan FP+ 60 days in advance. We are local and we never planned more than a day or two in advance, mostly same day, and I loved FP+ compared to paper FP- or any other option. What I liked about it was the ability to plan three attractions, all timed fairly close to each other, and do so for late afternoon/evening, prior to arrival. So we could go over at 3:00 or 4:00 pm or later, do three attractions in a few hours, and leave. With FP- (paper), we arrived at the parks and had to walk to all the attractions, only to invariably find the fast passes gone for the day. With FP+, I loved that we could plan to come later in the day, not first thing in the morning, and only spend a few hours. Even before we were local but came to Orlando on vacation, we were never rope-droppers nor would we spend 6+ hours at WDW in a day. (For fun one time, we spent an entire day hopping between Epcot, MK and Studios but that wasn't a normal visit for us.)
So question/concern - if we buy
Genie+, will there still be LL (not LL$, just LL via Genie+) availability if we don't arrive at the park before late afternoon? And/Or if we are at a park with Genie+, after we check in for our first Genie+ attraction and have the option to reserve our next one, will it be hours away, or will there be available attractions within the next, say, hour? I think Disney assumes that all guest plan to stay all day at the parks, or that late arrivals plan to stay until closing. For those guests who don't want to spend all day, Disney wants to find a way to encourage them to stretch out their visit. So I'm concerned that they won't make it easy to get a few quick rides in a short amount of time via Genie+.
I'm also hoping there will be an option for Annual Passholders to purchase an annual Genie+ like I've heard MaxPass had at DL. I would definitely pay the $125 extra that MaxPass was to have Genie+ on my AP. Something tells me, however, that Disney is unlikely to hold that price for WDW based on the number of attractions available at WDW on Genie+ vs. DL. But I would rather pay it up front with my AP purchase than think about our paying $30 extra (for the two of us) each time we want to pop over to the parks for a couple of hours. We have the Universal premium tickets that allow express lane entry after 4 pm that we enjoy and wish Disney would offer something like it for AP holders.
As for the Individual Purchase rides, we would most likely skip those unless we can miraculously catch a standby line that is reasonable on a slow day.