As a minor coaster nerd I am so bummed about this. Cedar Fair runs their parks decently, not a Disney/Universal level of production value but they try. Six Flags... does not try. Here's your fucking coasters, half of them are closed, get out of our face. The theme of our park is "blacktop in the sun" and our mascot is a piece of plywood with a Tweety Bird decal on it. Fuck you.
I once locked my wallet and phone inside a locker at Six Flags New England and then realized I needed money from my wallet to open the locker. No problem, I thought, I'll just talk to the staff member running the lockers... oh that's no one. Well, I'll find a security guard... no I won't. So I'll go to a food vendor... the only ones open are run by outside contractors. Practically no staff other than the ride operators. I had to walk all the way out to the front gate to find a person who could call for help, which arrived a brisk 45 minutes later.
And the point isn't "oh no! I was inconvenienced!" but that level of understaffing does not indicate a company that is doing well and gives a shit.
Maybe it'll go the other way and they'll raise Six Flags' standards to Cedar Fair's level? They definitely won't but wouldn't that be nice.

