RE: BGW's Facebook Page
Look,
Everybody has their own ideas about what makes the park "the park", and everybody rates those ideas according to their own priority list. For some of us, the little things and the atmospheric elements are pretty near to the top of that list. For some of us, they're somewhere closer to the middle, or even the bottom. Regardless of what we think about these things, it is bad form all around to talk down to people and dismiss their concerns. We've been over this so many times already.
It has been well demonstrated that Haberdasher is not against change for the sake of being against change, and it's neither fair nor helpful to accuse him of such. He doesn't like the glow stand because it doesn't fit with what he thinks makes the park "the park." There's no reason to assign any other motive.
My three cents on the issue is that I see people taking family photos on that grape thing fairly often, and think it was probably not the best decision to switch it out for a kiosk peddling rave wares. HOWEVER, I also know that (unlike the sundial) it's temp for Illuminights and sometimes, things like that can be okay in small doses. I'll reserve full judgement until I've seen it for myself.