How did people manage travel dates before the notions of "flexibility" and "low season"? Historically, trips have always been dictated by life's constraints, such as school holidays or harvest seasons; there's no new opposition here, just the same reality. Believing that flexibility is a novelty or that it opposes benefits is to ignore our collective precedent. For example, a family with children simply cannot "choose" the low season during school time, no matter the advantages.