Jungle Cruise - The Criticism is Intense!

 This week's best clickbait.  It landed in a Google feed.

"Fan-Favorite Magic Kingdom Attraction Now Facing Intense Criticism"

Spoiler Alert! It's Jungle Cruise.

The photo featured with the article shows kids with balloons in front of Cinderella castle. Not an elephant or tiger in sight.  It takes five whole paragraphs before it even identifies Jungle Cruise as the subject. Classic clickbait tactics. Shameful editorial guidelines.

So the Jungle Cruise is now facing intense criticism.  From who?  It would appear that said criticism is coming solely from the author of the post.  The article is clearly an opinion piece where the writer projects very contrived  observations and conclusions on unnamed and unattributed sources. It generalizes the consensuses of whole demographics (i.e. "teens find it tame, "younger children lose focus").  The criticisms articulated are generally mild and certainly at no point intense.  It's as if the headline was written before the article.  Disguising hollow conjecture as objective journalism is a dishonest and sad way of generating attention.

As to the supposition itself - In my subjective (and clearly identified) opinion, Jungle Cruise is a perennial theme park attraction that has endured for over seven decades and will likely be around for at least seven more.  To say that it is suddenly facing intense criticism is nonsensical.  It transcends comparisons to thrill rides and other new tech attractions by way of brilliant and detailed designs (right down to its wonderful queue elements) and a legacy of historical significance and sentimental nostalgia.  It is important to also recognize that the perceptions of the very vocal but largely insubstantial coalition of influencers, lifestyle bloggers and clickbait journalists do not in fact represent the opinions of the vast majority of Walt Disney World visitors.  Most guests will likely experience Jungle Cruise once every few years, not two or three times every week. That degree of repetition is bound to inspire boredom and cynicism in even the most devoted Disney enthusiast.