The majority of fans have a favorite phase/season and they can't be happy with anything that doesn't fight to recreate that perfectly. I mean, okay. I get it. But that ain't me. To me the variations are/were part of the lure.

Also, I think after so many seasons with the assemblaged/3-D layout, my brain just kind of plugged it in automatically to the aberrant ("flattened") seasons anyway. :D I noticed the change and then promptly forgot it. #MST3K