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You can not stop people from comparing, nor stop them dis-engage because of it.Oh Im not saying that he should change it, its already to late for that, thankfully StanG is the one that actualy editing ZoroJ sprites and preserving original his original style, examples are Maskless Tank, Orc wrestling sprites, nude Korg, Everett new emotes and etc., instead of complitely making new one that might have big difference from original.
The complete overhaul of old stuff are helps for a new artist to have less comparison with old ones since new coming pople will see only new stuff and wouldnt know about old one and wouldnt be camparing and overtime it would die down.
Something that heppened for ExAc where people initialy were complaining about Ger being new artist but overtime moved on, and it was the best choice for VN since it become alot better and production quality rose up since artist were incredibly invested in the game. So I hope that not sprite replacement but game itself will get alot more quality content and visuals to acompany it since the team would be more invested in the project and not just Hyao and Virile. But from the last few update I already see rise in the quality, like Virile content with Maul and Barrel, like Brimscorch Black Wolf content, upcoming Croc village with new NPC that actualy look realy good since Naram actualy drew them in his own style instead of trying to mimic ZoroJ style like it was with Furry island part, so it deffinitely coming together for better
But when I said "It doesn't matter", it means "It doesn't matter": no need to worry about them, no need to make any decision based on them, they are not your concern anymore.
Quantity does Not Equal Quality.
You can't simply say "Oh they are producing contents quicker so it's better", "Oh there are more artist drawing so it's better." That's not why LD is getting better. What LD achieved at this stage is not as simple as that.
They live and learn and making good choices along the way, from multiple-front. Like working as a team that everyone is committed, like letting Narram draw what he's good at, like letting StanG inspire the team in his own way, like only using people who respect the source / the origin, like not doing commission based arts, like using different writer but not just "Guest writer who only want to self-insert", etc.
To be fair, there are still quite some fumbles, but it seems they are learning from it.
It's not because "it's too late" that they shouldn't change the arts. It's never too late to make correction, IF there's correction needed. ZoroJ's arts are not "mistakes" that needs "Correction".
Not sure what's the production value of old ExAc under CM, But Pretty sure they didn't willingly change the artist because "it's for the better". That's a different situation from LD.