I have only been on two cruises (I'm booked for next year on the Mardi Gras though) so I probably don't have enough experience to really weigh in on this, but I'll give my personal observations on my admittedly limited experience. One cruise was a 7 day on the Disney Fantasy just before covid started and the other was a 7 day on the Carnival Legend out of Baltimore last november. All I can say is that the Disney cruise had the rudest, most entitled, selfish, unhappy and unfriendly people, while the people on my Legend cruise were friendly, happy and lovely. On the Disney cruise, grown women pushed my then 4 year old out of the way to get to talk to princesses first and on the Legend we had many people come up to my kid and give her rubber duckies and trophies they'd just won at trivia. The Disney people may have paid at least 3 times as much for their cruise than their carnival counterparts, but they certainly were not a better class of people. If the happy, friendly and fun people from my Legend cruise are considered 'boorish' then I think I'd prefer to hang out with the boors.