The original question assumes that people knocking a remake are just doing it without thinking, because they're just used to the original and won't accept anything different. That happens, but often the criticisms are valid and well thought out. We also have the problem of viewers being seduced by newer and better-financed remakes, because of how they look more than anything else, and the fact that so many people assume new is better. There are simplistic reactions on all sides.
I don't demand that a new DS be just like the original. If they make something separate and great in its own way, another vision of it, that's great. I just don't think that happens, and I don't want the new version to be in competition with the original. Successful remakes can lead people to leave the original version behind. I think that's happening with Doctor Who.
I don't want to find someday that DS Forums has become about someone's very different remake, which will have hijacked the fandom (if that happens) and left the original DS in limbo. "Dark Shadows" will end up referring to the new one. The old one might almost get defined out of existence.
all too often we spend way too much time bemoaning the ways in which the new version deviates from what we know and love, and too little time considering whether the new material stands up in its own right.
Very true. It's not always that, though.