So looking at on site hotels the opening week pretty much everything is sold out, yet the park is only open until 9 with EMH for an hour 1 day a week. 4 hours less of running time for a park and land that is gonna be jammed.
Disney has 36,000 hotel rooms on site alone , most of which should be occupied, Lets assume each room has on average 3 people. That's 108,000 people. Lets assume the average trip is 4 days and people will ride this once on the trip. That's a possibly needed capacity of 27,000 people a day or 2,250 per hour for just on site guests alone. Now we could take away from that needed capacity number for younger/older guests or longer trips where people still only go once, but I think at least for a while we could assume other guests are packing hotel rooms full and making short trips just to get on this ride. Now consider the fact that not even weekday select passes are blocked out (besides weekends) until Dec 19th and we don't know how many people are staying off site coming to get on the ride as well and think about how terrible this opening is going to be.
As I have probably said before the blame the guest for booking a vacation just to ride this argument is mostly nonsense. I understand unforeseen technical difficulties happen sometimes, but the park announced a hard opening date and is so far seemingly doing almost nothing to manage capacity of this ride. There is just no reason that they cannot afford to pay people to staff at least star wars land an extra 4 hours a day at least for the first few weeks after opening. There is no reason they cannot look at their bookings and do assigned entry times to on site guests followed by other groups way ahead of times. They are just greedy with greedy money extracting shareholders who need to see long lines. If I am a guest staying multiple days at one of THE MOST expensive parks in the world and Disney does not manage capacity or give a specific warning about limited operations for this ride in time for me to change plans you are damn straight I expect to get on this ride and would pretty much want to get comped a day if I could not. It sure as hell isn't the guest's fault that Disney screwed up offering extra magic hours too early in the year before the whole land was open and now feels the need to cheap out.
Now maybe they make some last minute adjustments but given how far out people make trips it seems doubtful. Maybe they are just lying about the hotels being sold out but I just cant see it at least for the first few weeks.