We were on our one and only WC in 2019. (I know you asked for opinions from more recent WC’ers, but thought I would let you know of our experience.) We found the evening entertainment to be excellent. Even if it was something that we didn’t think we would be interested in, it would be presented in such a way that it was very entertaining. I can’t say the same for the onboard speakers. There was only one who was excellent. The rest were pitiful. They found a way to make interesting subjects mundane and very boring. It takes more than knowledge of your subject to make an interesting speaker. Unfortunately, most of these lecturers had no idea of how to present their subject to a roomful of cruise passengers. It was such a shame because there were some speaker subjects that should have been great. With all the consecutive sea days on our WC, after a while, we were finding ourselves to be quite bored. Of course, the port days were wonderful. I’m sad to hear that the VoV is not going well for you. We’ve done that itinerary 2x and both were beyond great in all aspects. But the last one was 8 years ago. A lot has changed since that time.
Hope you get some opinions regarding more recent WC’s!