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Well, it doesn't necessarily make sense to be prepared.

You'd basically be preparing for a load spike that you're unlikely to see ever again. It probably makes more sense for most systems to just take the L on day 0 and design for day 1+ instead of designing for day 0 and being overengineered for day 1+.

That’s not the kind of thinking that really works for a brand with such massive consumer trust as Disney. You’re talking about a brand worth $100-200 billion, you don’t just “Take an L.”

Why not? How many customers do you think Disney lost for its morning disruptions? I'd guess basically zero.

That kind of thinking isn’t how top brands are built. Lexus doesn’t lose any customers if the scan button on the LS400 radio is a little fiddly, but that kind of thinking will poison a brand.

I also think a glitch in the launch day counts as 100 glitches on any other day.

Probably compounded by the fact that a bunch of schools closed in the midwest and northeast because of the snow.