@northern haste
Truthfully, I kinda prefer the old flawed cel-animation style of earlier seasons, and that might be why others prefer them. Sure newer seasons look more bright, and crisp, as well as more detailed, (allowing them to do some things they couldn’t before) but somehow, they look too perfect, and machine-made to me, and look less hand drawn.
Digital art/animation is nice, don’t get me wrong, but somehow old hand-drawn cel animation have a certain flawed, and more human look to them. While there’s some things you can’t do as good with classic cel-animation, there’s some things you can’t do with digital either. (That’s why they animated that Cuphead game the old way, to get that authentic look.)