In reply to L.A.:
Ha! I was reading this thinking "Yep, I don't really have anything more to add."
Yes, not only are the summers wetter, starting to rain a lot in early July, but the winters have been very dry, so there's not as much snow cover to begin with.
It should be noted that KYII and DJ are barely even mountains, really just the tops of ridges coming down off the main peaks. Yet as LA says, KYII in particular is swarmed with dangerously inexperienced visitors and their hardly-better 'guides'. Stok Kangri had got the same before it was closed, though last July in Leh they thought it should open this year or next. Hopefully cleaned up, as despite its reputation it was quite a good peak.
Going cheap and independent for the experienced? Horses are the issues now. Twice (2015 & 2022) I've hoped to use the KY area as a Plan B and both times it proved impossible to get horses locally without having booked ahead through an agency. You could try and wing it, getting a taxi/van to the roadhead (wherever it's at by next June) in the Markha and picking up a stray horseman, but even for me that's risky. Other areas in Ladakh/Zanskar were much easier to arrange on the spot. And, once acclimatised, some of these areas you can just walk in/out from the road with a big pack on to 6000m peaks.
http://publications.americanalpineclub.org/articles/13201213635
http://publications.americanalpineclub.org/articles/13201214758
Rimo, good people, but are too expensive for anything other than a difficult permit or a big, hard thing.
Leh has plenty of cheap agencies, but as in all other similar situations in such places, they mostly just funnel into the same basic system of permit + vehicle + horses, in terms of the necessities.
Plenty of food and gas canisters in Leh, but gear hire was pretty basic, like the lowest level in Kathmandu. Hotels plentiful and cheap, though power, internet and hot water can be patchy.