I think everybody has understood you were a big DVC fan since Post 1. (So am I, by the way -- we've stayed in DVC resorts 30+ times.)
However, public discussion boards are not just about YOU.
When you put a premise up in a public forum, others have a right to disagree. As you've seen, from the length of this thread, there are a number of posters who have a different opinion than you hold. That's what discussion boards are all about. If everyone agreed with you, the thread would have died the first day, and there would have been no point to your thread.
As shalom noted above, I'm not knocking DVC. As I said earlier, there are things I prefer about DVC.
The other concept we all should keep in mind is that there are a lot of readers here who are not posting. No thread is exclusively about one poster's opinion or another.
So if you post a comment that someone takes exception to -- or thinks is incomplete -- somebody will disagree...not because of YOU, but for the benefit of other readers. Otherwise, we end up with
"Should I buy DVC for cruises and Adventures by Disney" threads like the one we have now on the DVC boards.
For example,
That's a true statement -- as far as it goes. There is ONE DVC resort in Hawaii which just opened. But DVC timeshare sales have been halted by the State of Hawaii, and Disney fired their longtime DVC CEO because of legal issues surrounding DVC's timeshare sales there.
More importantly, the resort is on Oahu (the last island most want to visit), and it's in absolutely the least desireable part of Oahu. I'm sure the resort is lovely, but there are so many better choices -- on Oahu, on Maui, on Kauii, and on the Big Island.
Wyndham, by contrast, has TEN Hawaii resorts -- only one of which is on Oahu, and it's at Waikiki.
Does that make Wyndham better than DVC? No. But it does offer TEN better Hawaii options for a fraction of the price. That's another example of the distinction I draw between the DVC
resorts and DVC
ownership.