Just catching up so I have to reach back a bit
When Golf Inn opened in 1973 the only theme it had was being able to see the golf course from some of the rooms
The Disney Village Resort Villas were built in 1985 [sic] and they really had no theme to speak of. I think there are more sparks of themes at the All Stars than there was in either the Golf/Disney Inn or the Disney Village Resorts.
It wasnt that these hotel werent theme so much as they were built when the concept of the Walt Disney World
Resort was very different than it was today.
In the first twenty years of WDW, the real emphasis was to create more of a general purpose resort that would appeal to a wide variety of guests. At the time a vacation focused more on recreation and activities, the getting away from it all kind of trip. The original Golf Resort was designed to be just that a resort for people that wanted to play golf. Its theme was as a fine golf country club, the kind of place that most normal people cant afford or get into. It was a place for Dad to golf his heart out while The Little Woman and the 2.4 kids were off at the Magic Kingdom.
In the same vein, the Disney Village Resort (which opened in phases from 1972 through 1975) was actually built as a vacation home development and corporate conference center. The original plan was to sell the villas as condos, the old Grand Villas were model homes for a development to the north. Other units were meant for large corporate getaways and conferences. The men would hold meetings in the day while the family was off to the park. Back in the 1970s when you were trying to sell second homes to well off snowbirds or hundred guest conferences to major corporations, all Disney all Disney time would not have been a selling point.
It wasnt until deep into the Eisner Era that the entire concept changed from the Walt Disney World Resort to the Walt Disney World The Brand Experience. Naturally, the emphasis of the resorts changed from being environments of their own into extensions of The Brand no golfing, all Goofy. In the 1970s and 1980s the idea of being surrounded by only Disney would not have worked, now at WDW you cant get away from the commercials.
Thats not to say one resort is better than another, just that the intent has changed over time.