Does it matter? The game developers I've talked to are well aware that they're trading some aspect of long-term historical significance for short term gain, and

Does it matter? The game developers I've talked to are well aware that they're trading some aspect of long-term historical significance for short term gain, and it doesn't seem to bother them. To use a sports analogy here, do you think it really matters to football coaches that the players can't go back in time and play the game exactly as it was played 100 years ago, for various reasons? The equipment and safety practices have changed, the old fields have been rebuilt or destroyed, the minutiae of the rules have changed quite a bit over time, etc. People could try to do a historical re-enactment of sorts, it wouldn't be the same, but that's okay because the game would still be fun if it was done the right way.