Actually, I don't think the Dining Plan had as much impact on the 2TS restaurants as it did on the 1TS restaurants. I do think, though, that these changes for 2008 will relieve a lot of the problems with accessibility to these restaurants that folks have encountered over the last few years. There will still be some places that will be hard to get into (there always has been) but it won't be as bad as it is today.
Things change every year. Folks should not foster an expectation that things will change so much in the way they'd hope for 2009 -- that's just a good way to set yourself up for disappointment. At this point, it is as likely as not that things will change again for 2009 in the same direction as they've changed for 2008. ... and just as likely that the changes for 2009 will be totally unrelated to the changes for 2008, not reversing any of them, nor driving them further in the same direction.
Things change every year. Folks should not foster an expectation that things will change so much in the way they'd hope for 2009 -- that's just a good way to set yourself up for disappointment. At this point, it is as likely as not that things will change again for 2009 in the same direction as they've changed for 2008. ... and just as likely that the changes for 2009 will be totally unrelated to the changes for 2008, not reversing any of them, nor driving them further in the same direction.