What does "significant" mean in this case? Are we naive enough to think that a brand new E Ticket will last longer than 1:00-1:01? Maybe that's significantly longer because the 7 a.m. drop will be gone in a second. Another sliver of time that will favor those who are faster/more experienced with smartphones, and with Disney's system. Unlike half the population today, I don't live on those gizmos.
Again, we will be there for ten days, plus a Halloween Party. And with this new system, it's very plausible that we won't get to ride even once. That would never happen under FP+/standby. I know because we always rode everything, even the first year a hot new ride opened. on all our previous trips. I intend to try to maximize the hell out of G+, ILL and VQ, even if it costs us thousands more for our vacation (it will, that I have no doubt). I do have tremendous doubts that this new tech boondoggle will be worthwhile and help us ride everything.
As a group of seven, we will be investing well north of 10K (staying at an All Star, not a deluxe) and twelve days to try to do (almost) everything that the parks have to offer. But, unlike in the past, we might get shafted out of the big new ride. I stand by my statement: that sucks. Call me old fashioned, but if a new ride is on offer at WDW, and you put in that kind of time and money at WDW, you should get to ride it at WDW. Why do repeat visitors like us (eight 9-10 day visits and counting) keep coming back? Primarily for the NEW STUFF.
After the trip, if I'm proven wrong, I'll be happy to eat crow on these boards. But if I'm proven right? I can just hear it now:
"stop bellyaching, you got a vacation"...
"you must've done something wrong"...
"the system didn't fail you, you failed the system"...
"we got to ride, I don't know what you did wrong"...