I've been hearing that from people for yearssssss -- "last year sucked, I didn't get on anything, I don't want to go this year." "You go to that? Aren't the lines always like 2 hours long? How is that worth it?" "Knotts is scarier, HHN is the same thing every year, you can see the scares from a mile away." "Ghostbusters isn't scary." "Why is there a Weeknd maze? Who would want to go through that?" "That's way too expensive, Fright Fest is way cheaper (in the past)."
I'd love nothing more than HHN to finally have to address hundreds of concerns that even us die-hard fans have had by evolving into a better event. Perhaps a bad attendance year is what we need. If they don't fail, they don't learn. Considering this year isn't the best anyway, maybe it's the perfect time for them to fail. Everything wrong with the event is on heavy display more than usual (aside from the lines lol). I took a survey today, let them know my thoughts, and was brutally honest -- I doubt it'll make a difference and more than likely, attendance will pick back up at least slightly by this weekend, but one can hope there's meetings going on already about how they have to change some things to wow people next year.