A very fair point cxx, as usual. I guess the point that I have made before is that if the change is so dramatic, the game would be better without the new CGs, because they are immersion breaking (if that is the right phrase lol). Especially if we are dumping more theme friendly CGs--again compare the Hermione favor scenes in the images file to the new CGs. But I also get this is just my opinion and other people disagree.
I agree that splash screen Hermione isn't great. But besides that, ingame it's alright. The main issue is that animations (especially Cho) are not bad per say, it's just that Cho's character design in the animation is different, and inferior (my taste) to her sprite.
Hermione and Luna honestly are alright for now, if not better. Make Cho's animation closer to her sprite, and I will be a happy man.
You can either do that by forcing the animation guy to draw like whoever drawn the sprite, or to make the guy who drawn her sprite learn how to animate.
Both not very expensive solutions, we just need to wait 1 or 2 years for it if it ever happens
About Akabur in particular : I don't know any inside info about what he thinks about Silver and what it would take to make him draw new stuff for it but :
What I can imagine is that AKB probably expected to get some retribution for another team making another version of his game.
Team is small and don't make lots of $ so they can't do that, and thus they preferred to recode and redraw everything so that nothing from the original (besides the main concept, which is not nothing) subsists.
But if Akabur was drawing new art for it, and advertised it on his socials, the game will gain a lot of new subs-->Team Silver will have more money so they could pay AKB for his work, and AKB wouldn't have to deal with coding or writing, so it could be a win-win situation.
But it's completely from my imagination, I know nothing about the real conversations AKB and Team Silver may have had in the past.
I wish they could get to a deal like what I described one day, tho. In my view, both parties POV is totally understandable.