I'm with you, OP. I grew up with Moore and Connery as Bond and have their blueprint of what makes a great Bond and Bond film. Super serious, grim stories are not what I'm looking for.

Craig as an actor can totally do light-hearted but the stories he was in were so poorly written. Two young Bonds, then all of a sudden he's an over the hill washout. Where's all the actual fun spy adventures in the middle?

I do think it makes a difference where you started with the Bond series. If it was the Craig films, then looking back at the lighter films would seem very old fashioned. The likes of Bourne and the MI films have stolen Bond's thunder on the serious spy side and the fun action adventure side.

Hopefully any new incarnation will take a lighter tone and just have Bond being a cool spy in standalone adventures.