While I can understand your disappointment that the discussion didn't follow along in exactly the path that Dustin might have intended, I think it is important to realize that Kevin comes at a lot of issues from an entirely different frame of reference. And it is actually my frame of reference, so I almost always find his comments to be well taken and insightful. Kevin and I are almost exactly the same age. We grew up about 90 miles from one another in the northeast. We began visiting WDW right when it first opened and made pretty much annual trips thereafter. His formative experiences were my formative experiences, and they were very different than someone who first flipped a turnstile in the early to mid-90's. To me, WDW is, and has always been, a place with a variety of attractions, not all of which live up to the iconic status of The Haunted Mansion or Pirates. And it was always intended to be that way.
Back when I first started going to WDW, (and, by extension, when Kevin started going), you used Ticket Books with a limited number of tickets for each tier of attraction, and you had to apply both patience and structure to your visits. You couldn't be a commando running from one headliner to another, and instead had to choose your attractions wisely. This forced you to also take time to enjoy the "lesser" (if you want to call them that) attractions, and caused you to develop a fondness and appreciation of them for what they were. You never considered them "bad". Or..."so bad that they are good." You thought of them as A, B and C level attractions and left it at that. When our family would tear out tickets so that we could ride one of the Main Street Vehicles or the Horse Drawn Carriage up or down Main Street, we never thought of that as a "bad" attraction. It was simply an "A" attraction, and we were happy to do it. And the Swiss Family Treehouse was never viewed as "bad". Instead, it was our chosen "B" attraction.
The important thing to keep in mind in all of this is that you never had enough tickets at any one level to cover all of the rides in that category. We would typically get "11 Attraction" Ticket Books, and perhaps supplement that on Day 2 with an "8 Attraction Ticket Book". As hard as it is to believe today, the 11 Attraction Ticket Book had only 1 ticket each in the "A" and "B categories, and 2 in the "C" category. That meant that you actually had to choose, and choose wisely. The "B" level attractions were: Swiss Family Treehouse; Frontierland Shootin' Gallery; Mike Fink Keel Boats; Dumbo and The Mad Tea Party. And you only had one ticket to use for all of these choices. Likewise, for "C" level attractions, you had two tickets and had to choose between Grand Prix Raceway; Peter Pan; Snow White's Scary Adventures; Mr. Toad and the Davy Crockett Canoes. Imagine going to WDW today and not being able to do all of those rides (or the ones that replaced them) in a single vacation. Heck. Now, people knock those off in the first hour of morning EMHs. It is entirely different. Back in the day, you pondered and you chose. And odds are, the attraction that you chose now holds a special place in your heart, and you would never call that attraction "bad", or "so bad that it is good". It just isn't in my mindset to do that. And when I heard Kevin adding to the discussion, I got the sense that this was the underlying premise that informed his opinions. Maybe I am reading way too much into it, and if I am, I am sure that Kevin will chime in and tell me that I am nuts. But I don't think that I am.