How the heck did the glorified arcade that was Innoventions fit the EPCOT mission statement? Or Honey, I Shrunk the Audience? Or even Captain EO (especially Captain EO). It was a park that was devised to not use Disney IPs, which was changed almost immediately. It was supposed to be constantly changing and was outdated in a decade.
The point is that once PCs started becoming ubiquitous (early to mid 90s) the theme (and yes, the “mission statement”) became outdated. At that point, the world started progressing faster than Disney could ever keep up (not like they were keeping up all that well to begin with). The Future World section was a 70s inspired space founded more in sci-fi wishful thinking than reality, and “global community” was a travelogue. It’s fine that is was that, but let’s not act like Disney did all that much to maintain the PR shroud around the place through the 80s. Cause they didn’t.
And I didn’t say Frozen Ever After was an effective attraction at all. I said it was the right direction. Like it or hate it, putting a Scandinavian-inspired IP in the Scandinavian country’s pavilion was the right call.