folk tales are an ironic example, given they generally lack a canonical form, are frequently adjusted or embellished depending on who's telling the story, and h

folk tales are an ironic example, given they generally lack a canonical form, are frequently adjusted or embellished depending on who's telling the story, and have evolved over time and from place to place. I'd argue that the more modern idea of a 'one true' version of a story, from which any variation is lesser (bolstered in law by copyright and trademark), is the historical abberation, compared to different creators putting their own spin on any given setting, story, or character. Now, that spin may be good or bad, from your point of view, and that point of view may be affected by what resonated with you about the original work (I think it's often a bad idea for someone to be working with some source material they fundamentally dislike, which seems to be quite common in adaptations nowadays), but that's an opinion as opposed to an appeal to some sense of moral importance of preservation of some particular elements of the original.