That’s a valid point I’ve sometimes wondered myself. I don’t hate the devs for all the new art and mechanics (although I will miss the current Medusa god sprite; I don’t like the new one as much), but modernizing the game is slowly dragging it towards what other games are currently doing, further encouraged by changes to old deliberate systems, like the exp distribution and such. It seems new and shiny for those who have been at the game for a while, but…
Now, on the other side of the coin, it’s fairly obvious that many of the old systems aren’t well received by the masses, though they are nostalgic for those of us who have been around a while and were the reason some of us joined the game, fewer and fewer people share that same sentiment who haven’t quit the game already.
I believe the devs are still moving in the correct direction, as trying to preserve the past would, unfortunately help seal the destruction of the game entirely, but it is a homogenous mixture of sorrow and pleasure, woe and (cautious) optimism.