Kingdom Hearts, better old style or new?

Ah... 2002, or was it 2003... anyway the first Kingdom Hearts seemed revolutionary because of the fact to many people that Square was making a game with both cartoon-like/anime elements. Often people that were putting off playing the game, even if they were a big RPG fan like us fell into the same trap. That is - "Disney and Final Fantasy? That's just dumb, how the hell can they make the next epic RPG out of that?" Come on. I know some of you said that to, we said it after all. Then when we decided to drop our pride and give it a try we were stomped and i just felt stupid. This in fact, forever enhanced my love for Disney and the game wasn't half bad either. So you could imagine how excited we were by the time CoM came out on GBA. Though something seemed different that would forever change the series that some people call worse, some people called it a life saver for the franchise. Its hard to summarize it but you could say something about the whole KH atmosphere was starting to change. Story was getting more complicated but enjoyable if you put up with it, tons of more characters being introduced all at once, and not so lighthearted combat anymore. Its epic now, in fact for example in KH 2 i found myself fully immersed into the combat system, core game play and story was starting to get insane with all the back stories and connections between worlds and people and whatnot. I thought, wow.... KH is very deep now isn't it? So here is the main question, Do you prefer KH like the way it was in the old days, Or now with deeper plot and what i would call very enhanced gameplay?