While I appreciate your desire to campaign for DVC members to be able to buy an Incredi-pass or Sorcerer pass and I acknowledge that you feel it would be just and fair for them to so do. I am sure there are dozens more behind you who automatically post a reply with this kind of argument every time one of us talks about the local guest. You were just first. Local guest bashing is near universal here and always negative, assuming they spend little and "cheat" the system somehow. Sorry, but it is a tired back-and-forth. I am talking about something new here.
I kind of think you missed my point. I am kind of trying to present a new point regarding the benefits of local guests to Disney without having to go through the "here-we-go-again" nonstop push pull over the fairness or who spends more among DVC, out-of-state etc. Not engaging in those endless arguments this time.
My point was not about the habits of non-locals or the amount of money they spend. My point is trying to look at it from Disney's perspective only! The 14 months of only selling Pixie is saying something loud and clear that Disney does favor local passholders at Walt Disney World in their matrix of guests.
Fact: Disney has only offered the Pixie Pass and only to Florida residents for the last 14 months. So, Disney must find that the local guest using a Pixie does fit their matrix as a guest they want in their mix. (That is proof, by the way, that Disney does not think Local Passholders "are the worst."
For the purposes of MY discussion I was honing in on why, from Disney's perspective, they would still encourage local passholders to buy Pixie level annual passes. After the first response, I got rid of the 2 hour commute definition and replaced it. So, your two plus hours and staying onsite is definitely not what my post was addressing. If Disney wanted to cater to those guests, they would form a different incentive consistently during those 14 months. They did not. The Florida resident specials for tickets and hotel discounts are sporadic; not consistent. So, I am looking at the true locals.
I defined a true local as a guest who came from their own home nearby for a single day or just a few hours and returned to their home after leaving the parks. NO hotels onsite or offsite, no DVC, no AirB&B, no staying with family (because that guest is from out of the area and likely to go all day successive days.) The "local passholder" is still preferred by Disney for some reasons that are of benefit to Disney. We are the market they would miss if they did not sell annual passes to locals. The true local is not likely to buy any tickets! We would wait it out. Disney can get DVC, out-of-state and people who spend money on overnight stays to buy WDW tickets if they do not have annual passes. Maybe not as many days on site or maybe not as many trips, but the loss of pure local guests did warrant keeping the Pixie passes on sale for the last 14 months -- and only that pass. So there has to be some advantage to Disney in it. The proof is that Disney did this; not somebody's opinion. (Notice, "should" "fair and just" did not enter into it.)