We rode up the gondola with a JH employee and Ikon pass topic came up.
He said that the resort had made a bunch of promises to feed money back into the place to repair, upgrade, etc., which they're not seeing happening.
He said it's easy to target Ikon passholders as the problem, when it's really the resort they're frustrated with.
He also said that the resort said they would cut back on advertising to (hopefully) keep down influx of beginners/intermediates.