We are staying onsite, but, as I mentioned in my post, we have no intention of being up that early to play "fastest fingers" with an army of smartphone pros. We plan to close the parks, because, from everything I've read and heard, that's a better option than the early entry insanity. And we're not going to burn the candle at both ends.
I loathe the fact that we are being asked to either lose sleep while on vacation, or give up on riding the newest attraction. Lousy, unpalatable choice.
For EVERY popular new attraction to come to WDW, when they used to open with FP and standby, we always knew that we would get to ride, multiple times. Now, with this supposedly beter solution of VQ/ILL, we don't have that assurance at all, even on a ten day park odyssey. This is an improvement??