Hell, I doubt you'd be open to all change, Sumac.
If there would be something that I don't like, I'll accept that I dislike that and won't yap about it on every single occasion. Quite simple really.
As I am not mentioning on every occasion how much I hate HOD or how much I dislike "metroidvania" formula as a whole, unlike some people who basically made it their duty to mention in every single post how they hate LOS, no matter how relevant it to the topic at hand.
They've got their right, correct?
As a new generation of the gamers, who is not obligated by anything to give a single damn about past iterations of the franchise - absolutely. They can consider definitive Castlevania whatever they wanted. I am not in the right to tell them that they are wrong, since I am belong to the entirely different gamer generation and adhere to different values when it comes to games. Just like with modern games in general - I dislike them, I don't undersatnd them - all this boring FPSs, crazy WRPGs, online RPGs. I don't see absolutely nothing interesting about them, but I do understand that this is a new time that set new standarts and new definition of what games is. My dislike and disinterest is not a reason to be a crazy hater.
Whining like an idiot "why they don't make games like in 1995" will make me look stupid. This time have gone and new people, new technologies come into play. Better to accept it and move on, rather than wildly barking at newcomers that they don't unerstand "what games truly are". They maybe don't understand what games were in your time, but it just proves that you don't understand what games are today as well.
In the end, if Castlevania will turn into something that I dislike, I'll try to make the best of the worst and like new games for what they are, or simply abandon franchise for a time being. It's not a matter of life and death to be worshipped as sacred idol or something, like some people seemingly make it to be.