I should change my name to Dr. Halloween and How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.
Fandom is getting pretty cynical, myself was no exception maybe 3-4 years ago. I spent WAY too much time in the past being annoyed or angry at silly speculation (check the archives of HNH on my rants of Alice freakin' Cooper), just to go to the event and love it anyway -- even it's worst years. It's not like I'm spending my last dimes to go to an event and be broke for the rest of the year or anything. And if you are, you have more serious things to worry about than a Halloween event. I know it seems very life or death as a major fan, but as DJ in The Last Jedi says, "they blow you up today, you blow them up tomorrow." Not quite the same metaphor, but you can hate the next 3 years of HHN and they could pull a rabbit out of their hat and have the best year ever after, and it'll make you fall in love all over again like the glory years.
You don't wanna go anymore, GREAT. Less lines for me. GP is eating this crap up. I don't like black walls as much as the next fan, but it's not going to prevent me from going. KSF love died out for me, I stopped going every year, as long as HHN doesn't dip to THAT quality of KSF's '08-'12 years, we'll be fine -- and it's almost impossible to get thaaaaat low. And heck, I've even learned to enjoy that Haunt now on a bi-yearly basis, ESPECIALLY because it's one of the CHEAPEST with the most content AND rides. It makes no damage to my wallet and is comparable in price to 2 drinks at Cove Bar/Lamplight Lounge at Disney. If anything, HHN will lose popularity, scale back, get cheaper, by that time we'll have more rides, and the event might be the better for it.
This year already isn't a full on repeat with ST and TrT, and we've experienced years that were or almost were 100% repeats (08, 10, 16) and in my opinion, those were some of the absolute BEEEEEEST YEARS. HHN luckily learns from their mistakes -- they usually don't course correct too well mid-event, but if they come back with something the next year, it's either kept the same because it was just THAT good before (AVP, HOTC) or it usually got a LOT better (Llorona, NOES 08).