Excellent comment. Especially this:

Which is to say that I cannot imagine a serious author calling Disney a genius - but take this with a grain of salt if being serious means being unable to suspend your own reality for a brief moment of childish happiness.

I like writing fiction, but I'll gladly give up being taken seriously as an author if being a serious fiction writer means giving up the ability to enjoy flights of fancy. In fact, I have trouble understanding how even the most serious fiction can work without it.