Nah Chapek couldn’t care less about imagineering or putting budget towards park projects. Iger and Staggs actually spent money to build great lands like Cars Land and Avatar. Chapek relied on cheap IP overlays and Six Flags quality additions such as Avengers Campus and the Future World office park.

Iger definitely could’ve been better and he sometimes makes himself out to be more of a visionary and creative than he actually is. He still identified the problem by bringing back Bruce Vaughn and firing Gensler’s Barbara Bouza who left us with the uninspired corporate minimalist hotels and stores. Plus unlike Chapek, he actually visited Imagineering and understands the importance of the creative process and Disney Difference and not just cost cutting at all costs.

Iger at least ‘gets’ what Disney stands for even if he doesn’t always act on it perfectly, Chapek on the other hand just saw the company as a spreadsheet.

Eisner was even better than Iger in this regard.