Even in my heyday, I never skied more than a handful of days a year. That's when I was doing school trips and we had a vacation place in ME to stay on vacations. Never skied more than a couple days in a row.
But how would that help someone like me who lives 3-4 hours away from a major ski resort with no place to stay? Seems like season passes would work only if you had a place to stay nearby where you can hit the minimum number of days skiing to break even covering the cost of lodging.
Can't deny that living in a ski town or the sport itself have become mostly for the wealthy. I used to pay in the low $40s to ski for the day at Sunday River when I last skied there in the mid 1990s. Yup, now it's $120 for the same ticket.