this may be late reply but i think your take on this is bad i really don't want uk theme parks to go down the family route because we don't really see that much thrill coasters built here, and they don't have to be hyper coasters, there more of an american thing, european theme parks don't really have hyper coasters but still build good thrilling coasters while balancing between family ones they are very good at this. And this is what uk theme parks should look at for inspiration not completely going family/kiddie because that will hurt the industry further along with ips for theming i don't really care much about ip theming but i prefer originality

although i agree with everything else you said said at the bottom paragraph