I saw some interesting stuff about Disney on youtube a year or two (??) ago. Wish I could find. Disney went derp or was derp long, long ago. Just more hidden. A (used to be) friend’s brother worked in Disney and quit as everyone there was a flaming homo. Then he went to NZ and worked on LOTR.
During the early part of my career I would occasionally get stories of life inside the magic kingdom from people who had been there. To this day, I will go out of my way to avoid the Mouse; I also wonder about any outfits that do tie-ins with them.
The event that triggered the move was Universal's "ET, the Extraterrestrial," Spielberg's 1982 monster hit, which prompted Roy to ask board members, "Why didn't we make that movie?" When it was revealed that Ron Miller had taken a pitch on the script from Spielberg himself but had passed on the project, it was enough for the rest of the family to push Miller out.
Michael Eisner, from the new management team, was the force that pushed Disney to the derp side.