I skied Powder Mountain 2 years ago and I was happy with my experience then.
I came back on the opening weekend of 22-23 and things were quite different. There is good snow coverage for early season, but only 4 lifts were open on Saturday. Today, Sunday, one of the lifts, Sunrise tow lift is inexplicably closed, although it served the nicest runs/snow in the mountain. Paradise has not opened yet, but the snow is abundant there, I know this is the case because I skied it and skinned up (kind of against the rules, but I felt the ski area operators haven’t been honest with the skiers who pay 120$ to ski this mountain. It’s all low angle down there with no avalanche danger whatsoever).
Disappointing. There are several ways of categorizing ski areas; one is on the way the lifts operate (or do not operate) on a day that the ski hill is not particularly busy. Unfortunately Powder Mountain joined the likes of Mt Bachelor on that list of “cynically” run ski areas. Too bad.