^ I recently had a discussion with a friend about that. Here's the difference to me between the PS2 games and Lords of Shadow.
The PS2 games are bad.
Lords of Shadow is insulting and violating to the series.
There is a big difference there. Besides, during the day of the PS2 games, we were certain we'd also be getting other types of Castlevania games. Dawn and Curse were pretty much released in conjunction, so there was nothing to make us believe that we'd only be getting boring arena brawlers for the foreseeable future.
If Konami are streamlining their business logic, there is nothing else besides LoS for the time being. There's just no money, seemingly, in running two canon universes side-by-side. It would confuse newcomers and be a waste of money. That's not including the Pachi-slot thing, which I don't count as a CV title more than it is one of Konami's Pachi-slot ventures using popular Konami franchise(there are some others too) to sell it. I see LoS continuing on until it's wrapped up, then the CV franchise, if it's still relevant and doesn't suffer from ADHD-popularity(and in turn, doesn't gain as much momentum as Konami thought because the first was "lightning in a bottle", which would basically make Konami stomp the franchise FURTHER into the realm of obscurity), they'll hand it over to other producers.
For whatever it's worth, Harmony of Despair was released like a month or month and a half or something before Lords of Shadow and then continued to get additional stages. I know that's likely not canon, and it's just a side downloadable game, but it's something. That said, I don't disagree with you, and it's the reason I'm somewhat militant (dramatic term) against Lords of Shadow. As long as that dark path is being walked, I think that it, for the time being, will indisputably be
Castlevania with no worthwhile alternative outside the old games, and that is an incredibly depressing thought to me.