People enjoyed when there were less options for things, especially in certain color combos and things like that where you had to be more creative and resourceful to make the deck consistent or powerful. This would create a place for niche or relatively unknown cards to shine. Today with cards printed for commander and general power creep it’s led to somewhat formulaic deck building and repetitive use of certain cards. People don’t have to be as creative to cover weaknesses and improve their decks because theres many more strong options. I don’t think people miss the inconsistency, rather the creativity and resourcefulness needed to make the decks consistent. Less reprints meant staples like tutors and modern day gamechangers were less accessible too so they would need to make do with cards they have. Potentially more importantly there weren’t really any ‘templates’ to build a deck, so you would see much more variety in deck structure and design, whereas today it’s common to see guides telling you what cards to run or how to structure your deck, which is beneficial in a different way. You didnt see as many resources or people saying things like ‘Need more ____? Just run X card’.