I agree with him, but it also has to come with an acceptance that the things you care about will age and slip out of cultural relevance, even if they're just be

I agree with him, but it also has to come with an acceptance that the things you care about will age and slip out of cultural relevance, even if they're just being replaced with largely similar things done from a modern sensibility. Removing certain words from Roald Dahl works aren't going to shake off the outdated worlds they were built within. It's as much about trying to hide how old the material is as anything else. They seemed timeless to me as a kid but I was oblivious to the fact that some of them had been published within my lifetime so I was under the impression they were things that had been around forever. Who is doing the revisions also makes a big difference; if it's about preserving some IP it'll either be the original authors (who are too directly tied to the source material to do anything interesting) or people who have a strict emotive of fiscal connection to the property (who will be applying updates for non artistic reasons and are therefore unlikely to provide any kind of interesting changes)