Today was our last day and we kept our DLH reservation. Checked in on the 26th and checking out tomorrow. Went through the new entrance 8 times, with 3 rope drops. Here are my takeaways:
Disneyland in general doesn't really follow set times like World does. On Thursday we went down around 6:30 and were 5th in line. Obviously things moved very quick in that position. I counted 5 checkpoints open in the morning (this was consistent throughout our trip at all hours of the day as well). On Friday we went down closer to 6:50 and were probably about 60-80 people back (maybe more honestly). When they opened the lines, we made it into one of the lines without stopping, took about 5 minutes from there (maybe less). This morning was actually the earliest I went down (around 6:20) and I was around 20th in line. Still moved fast from that spot once they opened the lines (i'd guess less than 3 minutes).
Inconsistency on opening lines was interesting though. Day 1 they opened at 7:05, yesterday around 7:03 and today right at 7:00. This seems to be the norm with everything, Fantasmic for instance started at 9:02 on the night we watched it. Parades always a few minutes late, early entry opened at 7:32 this morning, one day at DL they opened the turnstiles at 7:26, and today was 7:22. Being used to world where things seem to work like clockwork on the dot, this was noticeable to my wife and I.
We passed through the turnstiles (coming home) at 2 on Thursday, and there was no line at all. We went back around 5 and again zero line. Friday we came home around 3, and when I passed on my way back, there was again zero lines. I went into DTD to grab dinner around 5:30 and still zero lines (5 turnstiles open). Coming out however (around 6:30) all 5 lines were at least 22 people deep (I counted people in the line closest to where I walked out).
Today we passed the turnstyles around 4 and there was minimal line.
I don't forsee them ever reaching a point where they open more than 5 lines...it's just not worth it, or makes logical sense to man more than that for the few rushes they probably experience (guessing 30 minutes to an hour in the early morning and around the dinner rush on the weekend). If you're going during those times, I'd expect to wait a little bit, but nothing that will throw a wrench into your plans.