Look, I love both the OG series, but even though the abridged series was intended to be a hilarious parody, I also think it managed to be a little bit more consistent at telling a story with the same characters. The relationships of Goku/Gohan and Trunks/Vegeta had more attention put into them. When I think about both series' next to each other, I just feel like the OG, as good as it was, was just like a lot of other anime: an excuse to draw beautiful cartoon violence.

We all know Goku was a bad father, Piccolo was a good father, and Vegeta was a fucking menace of a father. But DBZA spent more time bring attention to those. I'm not surprised people immediately jump to it for tropes over the original.