Here's a fact about comparisons... no matter what you are comparing, nothing... NOTHING is going to add up to the original. If you are comparing oranges to apples, obviously, oranges are going to make pretty terrible apples. And vice versa.
Comparing one group to another is needless.
No matter what the new line up does, it can't compare to the original line up, because they are different people involved. They might even be musically superior, but they won't be the "original" line up, and nobody can do the original line up like the original line up. Likewise, if you were going to compare the original guns to the new guns... the original guns can't measure up to the new... it's semantics, sure, but, its as ridiculous as this whole thread, because, as it has been said, the respect that once existed in the old line up simply isn't there, and until it is, you aren't going to get the original guns.
So be happy with what you can get. You can have VR.
And maybe, must maybe, if you light enough candles and meditate on it enough, maybe, Chinese Democracy might come out.