Who are these Imagineers that keep coming up with this recent streak of such bad ideas that get greenlit & built, or get greenlit then cancelled.?..Harmonious barges, AK night shows, Poppins tea cups, Star Wars hotel/experience, SpiderMan at DCA, Play Pavilion, Kite lagoon shows. Surely, there's some people that don't belong in, or understand, the business.
I can't really blame the Imagineers when they are being directed to solely focus on IP projects that are rushed and/or mandated by the top.
Rivers of Light was an odd failure on Imagineering's part since they were relying on the driverless barges to be the "wow" factor. Same for Harmonious. Sometimes technology isn't the reason why we visit the parks (Universal can learn from this too lol).
We probably would have a Poppins flat by now had the Imagineers not tried to be too creative with it. There was zero need to do all the fancy expensive stuff they were planning on.