I'll be sure to link HappyDolphin here when he gets back from his ban.
As for myself, I don't deny anything you'd stated but I replayed Super Mario World when it was release on the Wii's Virtual Console and I still had as much fun with it as back when I first got it. Searching for hidden exits was really fun, ghost houses were a nice addition, I loved flying from beginning to end of a level with the cape (even though it's cheap as hell), the special world provided some tough challenges, the different Yoshis made up for the lack of power ups.
That's not to say I think the "New ..." series are cheap cash-ins without soul but I still prefer SMW to this day.
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