The Walt Disney Company is still holding strong that it's the YEARS of built-up fiber glass patches 'causing the problems.
Maybe they don't want to hurt our feelings.
hehe.
ALTHOUGH, I have a thought... if it was the weight of people alone 'causing the problems on old Disneyland attractions wouldn't we would have seen a problem on the Storybook Canal boats by now too? Or, is that ravine a lot deeper?