I'll join the list who like the pared back 'festivals'. Seems like any time of the year I go to Epcot the past few years, it's always festival time. I miss the quieter Epcot times, and wish more people went to Epcot to enjoy the countries, rides, educational stuff, etc that it used to be about. I still regret that Epcot has lost so much of the educational side - technology, ecology, robotics, future predictions, and more were always a big part of the Epcot experience in the 80s...even the World Showcase was about meeting people from those countries, learning cultures, and seeing arts, hearing music, etc.
Not that I didn't enjoy Flower & Garden and Food & Wine - I love both and always enjoy going to them - I just like to see them return to being actual 'festivals' - a month or two of the year, spread out.