I got our hoppers refunded yesterday. Make sure you know what kind of refund to expect. The first time, the CM said a refund of $276 for 4 hoppers. I said "that doesn't sound like enough". Then she checked again and said she was just calculating the 1 day price. Our tickets were 7 days so we were due $90 per hopper. So a $360 refund. I purchased mine from
UT, they were linked in MDE, and she refunded it to whatever form of payment I wanted. I figure if hopping is restored by our trip in November, we can always add them back.
Making that downgrade did remove the long expiration date from our tickets and locked them in to the dates we are traveling. So if that's an issue, you might want to delay getting your hoppers refunded.