I'm on the fence too. I definately liked Kanto a lot, but I couldn't stay up late enough to watch it often because I had an early bed time of like, 8:00 back then. I loved the show and watched it every chance I got though!
Yeah, Ash's wins are now just stupid.
Ash really isn't the same. Not just his voice, his personality too. He used to be the kinda clumsy, funny guy and now he is kind of boring. I still can't get over the voice changes in all of the characters, their voices were part of their personalities and so now it is just kind of messed up.and they need to restore ash's fun personality.