Weekly discussion: the original vs the remake that changed my mind [v4]

I want to write something more comprehensive about this later but starting with a quick post to gather thoughts. Looking for honest feedback, not validation. Spent the last few weekends digging into this and the deeper I go the more questions I have.

This came up at a meetup recently and the room was split, so curious what the broader community thinks. Posting this here because the relevant subreddit has gotten too noisy lately.

Spent the last few weekends digging into this and the deeper I go the more questions I have. There is a lot of conflicting advice online and most of it is from 2019. The trade-offs here are not obvious to me and I keep flip-flopping.