It’s all motte and bailey. They make massive, unnecessary changes to established media, typically in service to their ego and/or pet ideology, and then they immediately revert to seemingly obvious and rational positions the moment you call them out.

“We have to make changes when we adapt for different mediums.”

“We have to make changes when we localize for a new audience.”

“We have to make changes when remaking media for modern audiences.”

All of their excuses sound reasonable, and that’s the point: to create plausible deniability for their self-insert bullshit and leftist propaganda.