I think for us, we’ve always hopped because we never do parks from rope drop to close, or even close to that. When we used to live in NY and would come down for a week 2-3 times a year, we would do a park for a few hours in the morning, go back to resort and swim and relax, and then hit another park in the evening. Now that we’re in Florida and go (pre COVID) at least once a month for a night or 2, we hit 2 sometimes 3 parks a day only for a couple hours. We have our set few rides we have to go on at each park, but most of our touring revolves around just wandering around, visiting shops, and dining. We used to plan our days more around dining than anything else.
The few times we’ve now gone since reopening I missed hopping so much. Being confined to 1 park a day was rough for us. We would go to MK in the morning, ride the few rides we wanted and then go back to OKW. We wound up not returning to the park in the evening because there wasn’t anything drawing us back there, whereas if we could have gone to a different park we would have had other activities to do.