Riviera direct or resale?

I would love opinions on our next contract!

We are in late 30’s and expect to have a long Disney/DVC life ahead. Our current ownership is 220 SSR resale, 200 SSR direct, and 100 AKL resale points. We go maybe 8-10x per year between 2-5 nights. We love Riviera, and originally bought SSR direct partly so we could book Riviera at 7 months but am having issues booking 3-4 night resort view studios at 7 months.

I’m considering adding either between 35–50 Riviera direct points versus around 75-100 Riviera resale points to help with this. For this example, assume the initial cost is the same - we would just get more resale points vs less direct. I could also tough it out and pay the premium for preferred view for a few years.

The idea with direct is to come in banked at 70-100 pts and use them to secure those 3–4 night Resort View studio blocks as individual nights at 11 months. Then at 7 months, if any of the same nights are available, I’d double-book them using my SSR direct points, cancel the original Riviera reservation, and roll the freed Riviera points into the next 11-month booking. Maybe I am able to get 2 stays a year and still be able to bank some points with this swapping.

The advantage of direct is that once freed, those points are unrestricted and since I’m starting each year with banked points, I would not have to use any banked points at RIV if I am not feeling it in a given year.

If I bought resale, I’d have more points and if I got in trouble, I could rent them out potentially if I didn’t want RIV that year.

Would you rather buy 35–50 direct points for this rolling strategy, buy 75 resale points and use them normally, or eat preferred view for a while and decide again in a few years?

Generally, our direct points are more for “us”. AKL is used for club level and value categories with occasional network, and SSR resale are used sometimes for poly but also to get the two bedrooms for group trips. Thank you!