Woah I don't think I've ever posted a thread that got more than a couple responses lol.
I understand the uptick in
DAS use since Genie. Truthfully, we are one of those families. I was a master at fastpass. We took 3 family trips with it, and because I researched to death, we honestly never stood in a line. I was great at knowing the good times of day to go, reserving the FP in advance, and then refreshing and getting additional FP throughout the day. You also could ride the same ride more than once. If a FP was available and all he wanted to do was ride Big Thunder over and over, done. Totally doable.
After FP went away, we have been on one family trip since then. We had 2 very rough days, even though I bought genie. It also is impossible for a family like mine to ride a ride more than once-even if there is genie availability for those who haven’t used one on that ride yet (meaning that of course even FP could eventually run out on a particular ride, but for many rides it didn’t… so even on a less popular ride now you can’t get more than one genie) On our third day, in HS (which is almost impossible anymore), we were trying to wait in a normal line. I won't go into my child's specific behavior and needs, but a CM saw the struggle and took us outside, out the back of the que/ride for some air. She is the one that said, I don't mean to pry, but I believe you may qualify for some help-why don't you find the closest blue umbrella CM and see. She was right, and I was so grateful for the compassion and the help. It saved our trip.
All this to say, YES DAS use has risen since genie, I can totally see that! I'm sure some is abuse. But some is very likely families like mine that didn't ever ask for accommodations because the normal, available to everyone cadence of the parks was enough, and that is no longer the case.