I'm not trying to prove my point, I'm just telling it like it is. Most stays I've tried to get the discount when offered, it didn't work out. That would be idiotic to not take a discount just to prove a point.
We can't comfortably afford an AP at this point as well as buying another hopper, sit down dinner, etc. - there's no guarantee there will even be an AP discount next May. We did the budget, it doesn't work right now.
As for being willing to just change resorts s- we have stayed at Poly, Yacht, Beach, but this time we need less expensive and we want Gran Destino.
We don't go to Disney just for the parks, the hotel is a big part of it. We research and decide which hotel we'd like to spend some time in. Gran Destino is the next best thing to the deluxe in our opinion, the views are great, people are giving amazing reviews and it looks beautiful. As I said, it's much, much cheaper than deluxes.
We don't want outdoor corridors, so won't do rest of CSR or any other mod/value so a discount there is of no value to us.
We booked Destino as it's what we can comfortably afford, so yeah, we aren't really willing to change.
You seem to go very often. We don't. It's not easy for us to just change dates.