A few thoughts on some of the things being discussed from a long-time listener.
1. The non-local perspective: I get that it probably wouldn't be feasible to have random non-local panelists come on and talk about their trips. However, I agree that the current content is way too skewed for locals. Craig and Ryno do acknowledge that they are speaking from the perspective of locals from time to time and that awareness is appreciated, but I do find myself getting irritated sometimes when they just completely brush off topics that have no relevance to them as locals, but would potentially matter to someone coming as a tourist. Years ago they did a segment where Theresa was given a budget and had to plan a trip. I think this would be great to see again with the current crew. Then actually complete that trip like someone there on a vacation would - make dining reservations at 60 days for hard to get places, get up at 7:00am for G+, use WDW transportation to get around - and document that. It could be done at multiple times of year with different resort types/levels. Of course, this would be a big undertaking. At the very least, I agree with others who have noted that the current crew could do more to step outside that local's perspective and consider covering things in ways that would be helpful/engaging for tourists as well.
2. The "wellness checks:" I don't mind them for the most part, but I think it does feel like kind of a disconnect from the rest of the content for me. This is not a channel that strongly features the personal lives of the vloggers. Some folks like the Trackers and PCDev share aspects of their personal lives on their channels and make videos dedicated to that. Paging Mr. Morrow doesn't typically make dedicated personal vlogs, but does talk about his life/show his family and his home a fair amount. Then there are folks like Molly/Mammoth Club, where the videos are almost solely dedicated to whatever travel content is being shown. It would feel weird for Molly to start one of those with a wellness check and then jump into explaining G+. The DISunplugged has typically skewed more toward the latter style of videos. It's never been just 100% about the theme parks, but the focus has also not typically been on letting us into the personal lives and homes of the panelists.
3. The news/politics: In the earlier days of the podcast it was nice to get news from them. Now in the days of social media and instant news alerts on your phone it's not really necessary. However, I think a lot of people (myself included) continued tuning in to hear the news, especially when there was a big story. Why? Because we want to hear this team's take on and discussion of that news. This is why Pete's rants were so popular. We don't need a dry reporting of what has happened related to Disney in the last week. We heard that 5 days ago. What is additive is hearing the team discuss it. This is a big part of why having more diverse view points on the panel would be a big plus IMHO. I'm not looking to see fights, but "discussions" are much less interesting when it's an echo chamber. And for those saying leave politics out of it, well much of the Disney news recently has been political in nature. To have any sort of opinion-based discussion people are going to have to actually, you know, talk about their opinions. Otherwise we're back to just a dry reporting of the news, which no one needs.
Sorry for the novel!