Does it matter? We're not the audience for this stuff anymore.
Kinda does, kinda doesn't.
I'll be honest, I was never the biggest Scooby Doo fan. I liked the show for the monsters and was disappointed that they weren't real. As a fan of Scooby Doo, I can't exactly say that my cherished memories have been dashed on the ground.
But in a general sense, yeah, I hate radical changes to the source material. I mean, it's okay to do a weird offshoot that's self-contained. But when you take extreme artistic liberties with the source material, and you present that as the central version of the story that everyone should accept as this generation's take on the story, I think that's disrespectful to the artistic vision of the original authors.
I'd hate to see somebody do the same thing with something that I had created.
You're gonna have to let this sorta thinking go, dude ---