Is Pai Thailand worth visiting, or has it changed past the point people go for?

The descriptions of it have not converged. Some people call it the best few days of their trip and others say it became the thing it used to be an escape from. Since it costs a difficult half-day each way, the answer matters more than it would for somewhere you pass through anyway. When you go also decides what the air is like up there: https://meetlocale.com/guides/burning-season-chiang-mai How many nights did you give Pai, and did the journey earn itself back?