We had a lot of issues early on and I have very specific security needs (the ability to VPN into my own home when abroad, I run my own NAS and Plex server, etc), so this was built out of necessity. That said, FB and other social sites will curate what you see and hear to build an echo chamber for you where your own thoughts are echoed back to you. Users on that platform then feel accepted and welcomed because the algorithm is only feeding them what they want to see and hear, so they spend more time on it. It's a dopamine farm to keep people invested. The more comfortable they feel the more likely they are to share personal details. Then FB collects those personal details and sells them to advertisers who publish ads on their platform.
We LOVED VWL, but our 150 pts were rarely enough to get into the cheap rooms we normally wanted (deluxe studio) since they all sold out on the 1st day of the 11 month window. Instead, our normal 5-7 day stays required a 1-2 bdr villa which meant we didn't have enough points. We would have to waitlist everything and nothing would open for us so we'd end up having to bank it and hope to pay for a more expensive room in the next use year.
I do agree with a lot of people that the magic seems to be, if not entirely gone, at least on hiatus. We've had many instances where we have received terrible service or just rude interactions with CMs, both in the hotels and the parks. In our conversations with our friends who work for Disney, they were all worried about losing their jobs under Chapek for wrongthink (accidentally using the wrong pronouns for a fellow CM or guest and being fired or reprimanded for it, the sheer number of ppl in the parks requiring much longer days and no financial compensation for this, guest frustrations with the changes in the parks and pricing increases causing animosity in the parks, etc).
That said, I still like the hotels and my son is getting married soon and we would like to have a fun place to go with them and eventually their littles. We could do the other options like Hilton's vacation program, but even if we don't go to Disney parks while at the DVC resorts, we can still appreciate the amenities and go to Universal or Sea World for the day.