Scooby-Doo was a big part of chilhood. When talong with friends about things we used to enjoy as children Scooby-Doo is always mentioned within my top 3. Shaggy in particular being my favorite. I used to be a huge slacker as a kid. I put in enough effort to make good grades and not a bit more and I was also adverse to risk hence the identification with him. Hell at one point imitated his walk because I was a tall and lanky elementary student. Making him black does not make me identify with him more it just makes me angry because you have altered him so significantly. The other changes are just as stupid.
The concept of making characters align with the looks of voice actors could be interesting if you weren't swapping old for new in an established series.
Hell if they were good writers they could have made a spin-off in the same universe with original characters and found success. Do a crew inspired by the original mystery gang and even have a crossover episode. You could even do a rotating cast with different celebrities making up other teams.
But no they're morally and creative bankrupt shitheads and they want to rape original IPs that people grew up loving.
I think that had more to do with how theatres changed how they operated, plus the advent of the television cartoon as a kid's ghetto, than actual censorship or ideology or anything like that. When movies were under the Hayes Code, and were shown on a loop all day long along with newsreels, shorts, serials, and cartoons, they were of a more general interest. But then came appointment showings, and the ratings system, and you only got cartoons when some Disney movie (live action or animated) or other G-rated fare came out, turning the last of the theatrical cartoon shorts into yet another artifact of the "cartoons are for kids" mindset.
Never thought of the growing lameness of Sat. morning cartoons that way, but you're right.
I get the imprression that around 1971 (I was 10) Sat. cartoons went south . . . now that I think about it, Bullwinkle cartoons vanished from Thanksgiving holiday programming around the same time, "The day after turkey day on ABC."
Fucking decadent American culture.