1) It's not unique if it's being copied from another game.
2) Not that new if another game has already had it.
3) I never asked to change it so no point in bringing that up.
Eh. I enjoy the new style for a number of reasons, though:
1) It's more unique. No present fan-games have BW styled graphics, rather, almost all fan-games have HGSS styled graphics.
2) It is new. Gives more creativity also and freedom because of the tile-size.
3) It's already in the game. Too late now!