I hope they are just erring on the side of caution. How can crowds be so low at AK (with a similar number of rides) that the almost equally popular FoP is a constant walk-on, but RotR will be just as difficult to accommodate everyone just once in a day? I think this is just to keep people from showing up at RD and to have the system in place for once capacity ramps up.
What is the hourly capacity for RotR? DHS is going to have less than 10k people initially for a 10 hour operating day. And obviously there will people some people who won’t or can’t ride like small children. Though with the 2 rows of 8, it will take a huge capacity hit as I’d imagine parties of 2 will get their own car. Maybe it really is needed.