Except nearly every major modder gave up on the game or postponed maintenance on their mods as a direct response to the art change. And even if you can play the older versions the content you kept coming back for, the mods, won't ever receive any new updates because it'll all be made for later versions.Holy moly, endless complaining from ppl who did not pay a single cent, play this game for free and can always just use their old version to keep playing just the way they are used to.
They killed the game for people who liked the original art. Which is quite a lot of people, but they're silencing the people speaking out against it on their platforms because they don't want another Gym fiasco where all the visible reception is negative.