Absolutely
@James it's so sad we're so used to everything being in a poor state.
When you pay for a meal on the menu at a restaurant, you don't expect your meal to come to you half prepared or stone cold etc. Or like you say, you want this pictured on the menu and it comes out looking nothing like how it is photographed. You've paid for a product and if it isn't satisfactory, you send it back.
Where I used to work, despite being in charge of ents...it then became part of my job to point out everything that was broken or scruffy and every day something would crop up. The team who worked with me was really small yet they tried to deal with every element as quick as they could. It only really came about because a group of staff were extremely passionate about the image and presentation. Until new management came in and simply got frustrated with the upkeep and didn't deem it worthy of having time devoted to it.
Problem is, the parks try to draw the public in by the experiences/services and say they invest in amazing new rides hence the prices. But really away from the "thrills" the entire package is not delivering what it should be day in - day out. The parks know this and try to draw the focus onto the fact they're paying for a premium product with premium experiences or deliver something new to justify the increase or the reason for the prices when actually, the public are paying for a premium product which isn't delivering it's full service. Regardless of age, the rides should be in presentable and acceptable condition because you don't just pay for the "new experience of the year" you're paying for the whole selection.
So you go to a restaurant and have a meal and the main is alright and then you have flat fizzy drinks and disgusting starters/desserts/side orders and you pay full price with no complaints...exactly, you wouldn't.
Sadly, in the UK we don't tend to complain as much about park effects/stuff, experiences and stuff like we should. Parks take your money and they think the price is justifiable with the addition of new areas or rides, but the public aren't dim...they notice the scruffiness and they do get a bitter view that they're paying for something which has dirty/scruffy/broken elements but instead of raising this/complaining they just don't bother returning which achieves nothing.