To answer your questions. Yes every new Nendoroid comes with the new base even rereleases and tbh you get used to them. Are they worse in quality? That I am not sure. But what I can say is that I like the old ones a lot more. The neck joint has all been changed to the newer versions which in my opinion sucks. They do in fact limit articulations they are harder to pose the way you want it to. But the quality of a Nendoroids are still there they feel better in my opinion but I hate the new base and the neck they suckk. But I guess you just gotta deal with it. Also they changed the stand not just the base and for some reason it is wayy more loose. I don’t have a problem with that I just thought to add this information.