It boggles my mind that there are people like this. Whenever I put money down on a Disney pass, I made sure I went on rides. That's what I'm paying for. Getting the churro and ice cream bar was the gravy.
As someone already pointed out, when you factor out the parking and the $25 value "taste card", you're literally paying $40 to just walk around and buy food and shop. I'm sorry, but I'm not that desperate to enjoy Disney again. If I'm really itching to get my theme park fix, I'll just fly out to Florida again. The Knott's events are always far more enjoyable and a much better value.
I plan to go to the Knott's Boysenberry Festival as I was pleasantly surprised by the "Taste of Fall-O-Ween" event. It's was a good value and they put on a great event considering the restrictions. I imagine the Boysenberry Festival will be the same way. At least with those events, they know it's simply a food festival and are willing to set expectations and pricing accordingly. With Disney doing this, it feels like such a blatant, souless cash-grab. They might as well name this event "A Touch of Your Wallet at Disney."
I mean, if this is your forte, then great! Enjoy yourself! I'm not down to pay $75 just to eat food and buy more stuff.
There is also the factor that the few times I've gone to Downtown DIsney, I just have a very negative aurora from that place now. I understand there are safety precautions they have to have with Covid, but I don't get that at Knott's. They have shown that they can adhere to the guidelines and circumstances without making it feel like a prison. At DD it feels very....eh......"off". Security guards staring you down after waiting in a long line to enter while having a security dog sniffing around you while having security towers looming over your head just feels very intimidating. Disney should learn from Knott's in that regard.