But on to your statement. Well, let me rephrase it perhaps, circa 2010...........
'Then, after having already completed my FP runner duties in the morning to get FP for BTMRR (assume you grabbed FP for Splash when you return for BTMRR ride time) and later Peter Pan (insert whatever rides fit your typical FP/runner pattern) and our whole party had cross-crossed the park several times to use our first 3 FP, and it's already late afternoon because the Peter Pan FP return was so far out, I would run/walk, sometimes literally run (but I guess that was a choice and made out of the stress) to Space Mountain (insert whatever ride fits your pattern) to get a FP, pray pray pray the FP machines aren't covered and that the return time doesn't conflict with dinner (or whatever other plans you might have) because if it doesn't I gotta run to the next FP ride we want, and if the machines aren't covered and the return time works........wait, get to the machine, pray pray pray it spits out the FP (yes, there is a CM there for a reason, because any tech can be glitchy, and FP machines often were), after which we have a lot of time to kill until the return time, and finally head to the FP, and then repeat.'
I hope you get my point. How is FP+ really any different worse than what you had to do with FP-. Heck, I think the circa 2010 FP story sounds a bit more stressful! While the steps might be different, are the overall processes required under FP+ really all that different? There is a lot of work/stress in either, no?
No, for us there was not the work/stress in using legacy as written above.
We did not criss cross the parks - neither to use FPs nor to get them. We toured by land picking up FPs as we went. Aside from TSMM/Soarin'/TT, we never experienced other headliners running out of FP until well past dinner time. If the FP was a little ways out, say for Space Mtn, we'd pick up the FP - maybe ride SB (depending on wait), ride Buzz, see the Laugh Floor, ride PeopleMover, etc - however much we could fit in before the return time, then we'd go back to Space and use the FP.
We did not use FP runners. With how we toured above, it wasn't necessary.
We did not "pray" that return times didn't conflict - we checked that on our phones before ever going to the FP kiosk. The current return time being given out was information available on various apps - including Disney's predecessor to
MDE, Mobile Magic. Even if it was 15 mins or so before we got to the kiosk, the times were not drastically different than what we'd seen on the phone before we got there. a 5 or 10 min difference in window time wasn't a big deal.
We also never experienced glitches with legacy FP (not saying they didn't happen, we just didn't experience them. We didn't with FP+ either).
So yes, for us, getting FP+ 4,5,6 is much different than legacy.
We criss crossed the park to use FP+ more on this trip than we ever have before. I will do my best to adjust my planning so that doesn't happen as badly on our next trip, yes, having learned from those mistakes.
For *us*, though (as that's all I can speak to), FP+ was much more work/stress than legacy ever was.
ETA: And FTR I did see your other post saying you don't want to talk about personal experiences anymore. However, you *asked* in your post to Shaden how FP+ is any different than legacy - I'm simply answering that question as well.