I read that and went
until I realized you meant early December. I don't think we are saying different things, but:
SV/LV studios:
132/157 week in early December:
MVMCP, gingerbread house, holiday decorations, low crowds
SV/LV studios:
206/244 over Christmas week: massive crowds, no MVMCP, and THOSE studios are also walked, as are the 2br.
You could raise the ## to something closer to the Christmas week points and people would still want to go, because WDW is magical then. Now I am *not* suggesting any reduction in the holiday spirit or decorations, or raising early December point costs to match Christmas week, but there's a reason why
all of December gets walked at VGF, and why we bought more points at VGF even though RIV was a better deal and we love both resorts.
Ultimately agree with you, that much of this is exacerbated by resale restrictions, people buying "just enough" contracts for studios and being constrained to booking studios.
I'm sure Disney has the ## but I wonder what the breakage # of points (if that's the right term) - average # of points that expire without getting used. Before owning DVC I used to stalk the "last minute rooms" (breakage rooms) on the DVC site and there used to be plenty of SSR and OKW, and now there's hardly anything. (back to wringing use of every point v. resale contracts being loaded... )