We have some pretty passionate posters on either side of this issue. I only have one thought to add.

I think the comparison to Universal is a faulty one. Uni's pay system is inherently different because it was never offered to everyone. WDW has now been employing the FastPass system, equally accessible to anyone with a park ticket, for well over a decade. Now, they are making a huge change to that system. For all these years the system was "fair" to everyone, whether you were on-site, off-site, a day tripper, or someone who planned things out days in advance--everyone had the same opportunity every day to get FastPasses. Now it is changing in a way that is not quite as "fair," and I can understand why it is leaving a bad taste in people's mouths. If this system had been in place from the get go it would be a different story.