Right, I’m just saying Universal really does not have a problem with attractions taking up a large area. A one-for-one swap of Jaws for F&F is no net change in attractions anyways.
IMO, you can't do a 1-for-1 swap. Jaws worked because you felt you were actually stalked by the 25-foot shark in an (already consolidated) open water setting - which is why the original took up so much space. I think this is where the nostalgia blinds the reality for a bit. It needs to be a Jungle Cruise-style attraction. Not POTC.
That might be because so much money was spent on overhauling the infrastructure and working on the show-building that they had to go cheap on the ride itself. If another attraction was placed here, the impressive show building still stands, and this time all money would be spent on the attraction itself that would go inside. The only issue I could think of would be water. This building was made for a dry attraction. How much would it cost to retrofit it so that it could hold water? As for the footprint, not much would need to be done. Just create a revised layout that can fit in the gutted show building. Reskin San Francisco to a revised version of Amity. You can keep the buildings facing the lagoon with some New England-inspired names replacing the California references. They’d only need to change the more city-esque facades, and even then that’s just simple facade-work. Swap one wall for another. To fit with the buildings being larger than the old ones in the OG Amity they could change to name from “Amity village” to “Amity Warf” or something like that
I don't think y'all realize how big the original was...