Renting DVC points when I've done the math has typically been three times as expensive as renting a lovely offsite timeshare condo. Love staying in condos, but as a budget Orlando traveler, the onsite condos are not something that I'd consider with the offsite ones being such nice places to stay for super reasonable costs. All that said there are definitely onsite perks that are nice that I'd like and no rope drop had me feeling a little bit like a second class citizen, but I'm just not willing to pay for the perks (they don't fit into the budget that I allocate for an Orlando trip either). // Do note though that this has been the case for me before all the recent changes too. I'm not a new offsite visitor.
Regarding recent changes as an offsite visitor, I liked the $15 LLs better than fastpass+ as an offsite visitor (more value than the old fastpass + as an offsite visitor even though I was paying for that -- really saw it as necessary at a busy time and got value from it), but per previous post I really missed not being the first people in the parks and having the rope drop advantage that onsite only has now. This is the first time in 50 years as an offsite visitor I couldn't be a rope dropper at WDW, and I did miss that for sure, but still I didn't miss it enough that I'd plan to pay onsite prices in the future. (Note that in about 40 visits to Orlando, I have stayed at Fort Wilderness three times (kid staying in my parent's motorhome), the Contemporary three times (seminar for DH - his company paying for our room), and Port Orleans once (seminar for DH at Contemporary in overflow area as Contemporary was booked up, so it's not that I've never ever stayed onsite -- onsite 7 times, offsite 33 times). It is true, though, that I have never paid to stay onsite with my own budget dollars, and only stayed onsite when someone else was paying for me -- It's probably my bean counter personality and me thinking the onsite premium is currently and has always been too high). I should mention that I do a lot of non-Disney stuff on Orlando trips too -- I visit other non-Disney parks (love SeaWorld in particular by the way), visit relatives in the area too (I have relatives who live right in Orlando and relatives who live in Tampa too). In six full days spring break March 2022, I just did two days at WDW and four days that I didn't set foot on WDW property. Given that I want to stay one place the whole time, that would make paying a premium to be onsite when 2/3rds of my time isn't even at WDW a pretty poor proposition from a budgetary / convenience stand point too.