The exact opposite is true for me. Current Kratos was a great choice.

David Jaffe is a has-been, he's had no success in the video game industry for almost 20 years. I don't think the opinions from the mind behind Drawn to Death should be valued by anybody.

Funny thing is it was Jaffe who suggested Norse mythology for the next GoW game after GoW3 he and Cory were on a show together and were asked about where Gow should go next Cory wasn't sure but Jaffe immediately pushed for Norse mythology and it seems like Cory took note.

Nothing beats the original.  Especially the first cutsecen in God of War! 

I think he's just pissed that GoW is now much deeper in every way and as a result, more popular than ever.
Things need to evolve sometimes and this is a good example.

I find the new games boring and it annoys me that most people love them. The game world feels dull and artificial unlike the ancient Greece. I don't care about Kratos but about the art style, the level design, the atmosphere and such. The new games almost put me to sleep. I don't understand how anyone can like running through artificial corridors and strange platforms that is supposed to be Scandinavia? And to have no jumping and platforming in a GoW game?

Can't say I agree with Mr. Jaffe.

I played a bit of one of the PS2 God of War games back and I couldn't really get into it. The PS4 God of War, meanwhile, is definitely among my Top 10 games of the past decade, and probably the best first-party Sony game I've ever played. Considering it was by far the best-selling entry in the series with at least 23 million copies sold, I think general audiences were sold on it as well.

Also, Metroid Dread was great.

In some way, yes - but that would then be true since God of War 2, not just the last game.

Kratos' story in the first God of War is one that changes him profoundly - but all that build-up for his character development and heel realization got thrown out of the window to make the sequels, making the first game from a story and character development point of view absolutely pointless. Kratos at the end of the first game was a thoroughly broken man, both physically and mentally, having realized what he's done; but none of this shows up or even gets mentioned in the sequels.

I don't care for either old or new GoW, but I understand his frustration - it is hard to see something you created get twisted and turned to be barely recognizable compared to the original.