To each his own.
We are localish to Disneyland (1hr away). We don’t need a unit with a kitchen, living room, second bathroom. We blast down, check in, hit the parks, take a poolside break, hit the parks, go to bed. We stay one or two nights. We dont lounge in he room, or cook in the room. This is way different from our usage of our other timeshares.
Theres millions of people who are Disneyland locals and may want to use their DL DVC exactly as we do. It’s not necessarily a matter of DVC cramming the max number of units into the project out of greed. It may well be that buyers are not interested in spacious rooms with condo-like amenities at a premium points-per-night “cost”.
Its cool that you’re not willing to buy DVC for use of a hotel room. I feel way differently. When we bought our VGC, we could occasionally find room rates of $189/night. Now $400/night is the cheapest I find, with $700/night being common. So far it’s worked out for us according to the typical timeshare model- you prepay a chunk of $ to lock in a cheaper per night cost. A typical 20 pt reservation represents approx $160 in MF costs. I paid them around $9000 a decade ago, which has translated into a per night discount of $500.
I don’t care so much that a timeshare delivers me condo accommodations as I care that the math works for how I intend to use it.